[Gambas-user] Creating a Gambas component

[richard terry]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:33:39 am dfuchs at ...2000... wrote:

I don't suppose that when You've got a this working you could write a tutorial 
on it for everyone could you?, I tried to make a control and failed 
miserably.

regards

Richard

> I have created a Gambas 2 project that contains some user controls, and
> I would like to make it a component.
>
>
>
> I have successfully compiled and installed the component, including its
> .component, .list and .info files in their proper places. So now I can
> insert the controls provided by my project into a form in the Gambas
> IDE. Still, some things do not work as I imagine they should, and I have
> some questions:
>
>
>
> - Can I make the IDE's property window display the public properties
> that are new with my controls, compared to UserControl? This would be
> most helpful, in fact, it was the main reason why I wished to make a
> component. I have seen that there is a hidden property named _Properties
> to every control class which obviously contains the names of the
> properties to display in the IDE. Can I assign values to this property
> in Gambas code, and will this have the desired effect?
>
>
>
> - My controls do not draw themselves when inserted into a form in the
> IDE. They only draw a rectangle and the name of the control. Can I make
> them show their real look in the IDE? As for visualization (which works
> very well once a form containing my controls has been launched), my
> controls draw themselves through a DrawingArea that fills them
> completely.
>
>
>
> - In the toolbox, my controls are represented by tool buttons displaying
> only a question mark. Can I make the Gambas IDE's toolbox display my
> self-defined controls with an icon of my choice?
>
>
>
> - In the "components" tab of the project properties dialog, my component
> is listed as "not finished but stable" but without a description. How
> can I make the description show?
>
>
>
> The project, including full HTML documentation in English, is to be
> found under www.sourceforge.net/projects/gambasmeasuring/
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help to come,
>
>
>
> Daniel Fuchs
>
>
>
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