[Gambas-user] make Label background from Database field

[Kad Mann]

On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 10:47 +0200, Doriano Blengino wrote:
> Kad Mann ha scritto:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 09:08 +0200, Doriano Blengino wrote:
> >   
> >> Kad Mann ha scritto:
> >>     
> >>> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 22:46 +0300, Vassilis K wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Dimitri I don't understand
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Why don't you take a look at the database example in Gambas?
> >>>
> >>> After creating the test table, if you type in an SQL command and click
> >>> the run button, you will see a gridview with a myriad colours that can
> >>> be changed based on the data. Surely something like that has to be
> >>> easier than trying to work out how to manage a hundred labels on a
> >>> screen, and surely it will offer you much better and easier control of
> >>> future UI changes, and surely it will offer a more pleasing and
> >>> intuitive presentation to your user.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> "Surely something like that has to be easier" and "surely much better 
> >> and easier control".
> >> Yes and no
> >>     
> >
> > I didn't ask you.
> >   
> True, and neither Vassilis asked you something... you can't understand 
> him, but I can understand you. In one of your last mail you noticed that 
> data controls don't have all the properties as other textboxes, such 
> alignment and so on. Be prepared for other surprises. Everybody would 
> love to have controls with lots of properties in order to do everything 
> you want, but this is impossible (can you believe it? Once you have put 
> 100 properties in a control, you will find someone asking for the #101). 

Of course, the point is, I didn't ask for the features. Did I? I asked
is the limitation by design, are there plans to change it, and is there
a workaround.

Besides, do you feel it is unreasonable for someone to want "a box used
to show the contents of a Field or edit it", a data-bound control
intended to save programming time, to have similar functionality to a
TextBox?

> Real programmers prefer to do things their way, with few versatile 
> mechanisms.

So, who do you believe might not be a real programmer?

>  The more a component gets complicated, the less people 
> understand it; just now, many problems arise from the fact that people 
> don't read documentation, and even when they do, they don't notice some 
> important feature; and often that feature is not exactly you need.

So, you feel that if a DataControl was given similar functionality to a
TextBox, you might not understand it?

> To Vassilis: I don't know what more to say about your problem. Better to 
> wait for Benoit.
> 
> Regards to all,
>