[Gambas-devel] Inheritance broken in 1.9.42

[Benoit Minisini]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:52, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:44, Daniel Campos wrote:
> > Hi:
> > > It is a bug fix. 'Title' is not a property of the Control class. If you
> > > need dynamic symbol matching, you must use the Object class. Otherwise,
> > > symbol matching must be static, which was not always the case in
> > > previous versions. This was fixed in 1.9.34.
> >
> > OK, I see, may be adding 'casting' would be useful... or may be it is
> > too much for BASIC, what do you think?
>
> Casting is automatic in Gambas. Just put your object reference in a
> variable whose type is the type you want to cast to.
>
> > > If you want us to start to make gb.gtk and gb.qt behave the same, I
> > > suggest making a page on the wiki where I will put all implementation
> > > details of gb.qt controls and where we can freeze this implementation.
> > >
> > > Are you agree?
> >
> > Sounds pretty good, the first thing I would like to finish is the Form
> > class and the basic controls: button, label + textlabel, combo and
> > listbox, and ensure that they work exactly the same than the qt ones.
>
> OK. Let's go for: Button, Label, TextLabel, ComboBox, ListBox & Form.
>
> > I already modified the button layout and just now I'm rewritting the
> > "Picture" management for all controls that now share the pictures
> > instead of making copies. BTW I found a bu with both gb.qt and gb.gtk:
> > when using the QUIT method the program always finishes with a
> > segfault.
>
> I know, I must look at it.
>
> > And the IDE seems to not really recompile the projects If
> > they were made with a previous version, it just shows the message
> > "Version too old please recompile" but I had to delete the .gambas
> > folder by hand to refresh the project.
>
> Actually, you must do "recompile all", not just recompile. And then it does
> exactly what you did by hand: deleting .gambas and calling the compiler.
> :-)
>
> > About the form class I think at this moment it just lacks two
> > properties, you know at this moment a form can be put as "always on
> > top", but I'd need two more properties:
> >
> > -> "always on bottom"
>
> OK. I will replace the TopOnly propery by a Stack property that will take
> three possible values: Window.Normal, Window.Top, Window.Bottom. Or
> something like that...
>
> > -> "show in all desktops"
>
> I will try to do that.
>
> > With those two properties I - and other people :-) - could write
> > "desklets" without the problems of the current Python gDesklets:
> > they're too heavy for little machines, they waste lots of memory. In
> > fact I did that with API calls in the past for gb.gtk:
> >
> > http://danicafe.extreblog.com/200603263792_Tapitas-de-Gambas.html
> >
> > But it is just a X-Window feature that could be shared in both
> > components or implemented with the GTK+ and QT features.
>
> I will add them in the x11.c file of gb.qt, that you can use in gb.gtk if
> you like. It follows the freedesktop specifications.
>
> > That's all at this moment :-)
> >
> > Daniel
>
> Thanks to kdewallet, here is the password of gambas-user-es mailing-list:
> 5e68bb8ff5b52e80.
>
> Regards,

Of course you should change it, otherwise other people will use it!

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Benoit Minisini