[Gambas-devel] New controls

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Hi David,

I think Benoit is gone in holiday !

François.

2008/8/6 David Villalobos Cambronero <david_villalobos_c at ...7...>

> Hello Benoit, did you have time to review the project?
>
>
> David
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Villalobos Cambronero <david_villalobos_c at ...7...>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:16:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-devel] New controls
>
> Sorry for be late, here is the project. Please take a look and tell me.
>
> Regards
>
>
> David
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Villalobos Cambronero <david_villalobos_c at ...7...>
> To: mailing list for gambas developers <gambas-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> >
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:57:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-devel] New controls
>
> Hi Benoit,
>
> I tried to inherits TextLabel, but How Can I pass the container. I mean,
>
> Private hMessageLabel As New TextLabel( Container )
>
> Please, what do I have to put in the container section.
>
> Regards
>
>
> David
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>
> To: mailing list for gambas developers <gambas-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> >
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 4:38:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-devel] New controls
>
> On mardi 15 juillet 2008, David Villalobos Cambronero wrote:
> > Hi Benoit:
> >
> > I have written two classes that provide two controls, we can add it to
> > gb.form
> >
> > One of them is called: MessageLabel, its goal is to provides a "Status
> > Label", so, you can send a message and say if this message is Error type
> > (red background), Info (green background), etc. I wrote it because is a
> > good practice to inform the user about the "events" that happens in the
> > program like Gambas IDE does, so I added a color background to call the
> > attention of the user.
> >
> > The other one is called MemInfo, its goal is to provide a label that
> return
> > the memory used by the application. I think in some programs we will need
> > to know the amount of memory used.
> >
> > In the project has a form to show how it works, so, install the component
> > and then uncomment all the code and run it.
> >
> > So, please take a look and please tell me what do you think.
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > David
>
> Hi David,
>
> I looked at both controls, and I'm not really convinced by MemInfo.
>
> The MemInfo won't tell you the real memory used by the process. There are
> two
> good ways to do that, depending on what you want to know. None of them is
> really accurate.
>
> The first one is what does the Gambas script example on the wiki: calculate
> the memory used by the system without I/O caches before starting the
> program,
> and during its execution. The difference is the actual memory used by the
> program.
>
> The second one is analysing the memory used by *all* processes with the
> 'pmap'
> program, and then calculating the memory used by the examined process by
> giving a weight to each memory segment. A non-shared memory section is
> fully
> attributed to the process, a shared memory section is given a weight
> inversely proportional to the number of processes using it.
>
> Anyway, I'm not sure putting this control in a common component is useful,
> even if it would give the right information, because it is very rarely
> used.
>
> The MessageLabel is more useful. But it needs some work:
>
> * The MessageLabel should have an AutoResize property, like the Label.
> * The standard background must be used for "normal" messages.
> * Why do you use "Export Optional"?
> * The MsgXXXX properties should be renamed to XXXXColor. This is far more
> readable.
> * A Clear() method to clear the label, and stop the internal timer.
> * Why is there a Default property?
> * Did you try to implement the control by directly inherit Label?
>
> Your MessageLabel makes me think... If you are brave, here is another thing
> that you could implement:
>
> It is a sort of internal message box like Firefox uses. It should be a
> component that exports a Message class to replace the old one, and a
> MessagePanel control that the user put inside its main form. Only one
> MessagePanel by application should be enough. The MessagePanel should not
> actually be needed, if you can insert it automatically in the main form by
> using some Reparent() magic, and let the user specifying where it should be
> inserted (on top/bottom of a specified control).
>
> Tell me what you think abot that!
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoit Minisini
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