[Gambas-user] gambas 0.57

[Benoit Minisini]

Hi everyone,

Here is the 0.57 version of Gambas !

This version compiles correctly on Mandrake 9.1 now. On other distributions, 
the last XFree font system fontconfig 2 and QT 3.1 are highly recommended.

Well, what's new ? 

- You get a Workspace control to make MDI applications.
- Form controls can be public like Visual Basic does.
- Forms are self-executable now.

I think old VB users should be happy with that :-)

How to make a MDI application ?

Just add a Workspace control into your main form, and creates all your MDI 
child windows by using this workspace as a parent.

Example:

FMain is my main form, and it has a wrkMain workspace control inside.
To add a MDI window, just do:

  MyMDIChild = NEW Form(wrkMain)

The Workspace control has a Children property that returns each of its MDI 
child windows. You must use it to create a dynamic menu that lists all the 
MDI child windows.

The gambas database manager is now a full MDI application. You can browse its 
source code to see more details about that.

I added a table on the "important notes" page on the web site, to try to get 
all gambas problems related to a specific distribution. I need your help to 
fill it !

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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