[Gambas-user] make Label background from Database field

[Kad Mann]

On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 14:00 +0200, Doriano Blengino wrote:
> Kad Mann ha scritto:
> > 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:
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> >>>       
> >>>> Kad Mann ha scritto:
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> >>>>         
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>       
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> >>>> "Surely something like that has to be easier" and "surely much better 
> >>>> and easier control".
> >>>> Yes and no
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> >>>>         
> >>> 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.
> >   
> You are very precise... so I will do too. I didn't say *you* asked for 
> features (did I?). Nevertheless you was talking about features...

Then why did you bring up my question in the first place?about it

> > 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?
> >   
> No.
> >   
> >> Real programmers prefer to do things their way, with few versatile 
> >> mechanisms.
> >>     
> >
> > So, who do you believe might not be a real programmer?
> >   
> Are you expecting I say "you"? No. I don't know who you are, and even if 
> I don't agree with you, I can not say you are not a real programmer.

Are outright insults like that permitted on a mailing list like this
one?

> Hey guy, keep it cool.

Yet you had to resort to insults.