[Gambas-user] What has happened to ValueBox

[Michael]

Thanks. I'll be off air for 2 weeks due to moving house. I look forward 
to getting latest version in 2011.

Regards
Michael


On 18/12/10 04:24, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Benoit,
>> On the line "Dim txtTemp as Valuebox = LAST" I get an error "Expecting
>> valuebox got textbox" But the last control was a valuebox.
>> It works if I change the code to "Dim txtTemp as Textbox" even though it
>> is not a textbox firing the event.
> OK I see!
>
> The ValueBox of Gambas 2 inherits TextBox, and so when it raises events, LAST
> is always a ValueBox.
>
> The current ValueBox of Gambas 3 is actually a compound control (it inherits
> UserControl), with a edit control inside that can be a TextBox or another
> control. Events raised by the edit control are propagated as if the ValueBox
> raise it. But then LAST is the read TextBox, not the ValueBox.
>
> Moreover, the code of that ValueBox is somewhat dirty. So I plan to rewrite it
> differently, and makes it inheriting TextBox again, or find a way to propagate
> events and keep LAST to be the ValueBox.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience. It will disappear when the ValueBox will be
> rewritten.
>
> As a workaround, you can check the type of LAST. And when it is a TextBox,
> take its parent to get the ValueBox.
>
> Regards,
>
>> Then I cannot read the "name" that I assigned to the valuebox.
>> txtTemp.Name just returns "Textbox".
>>
>> I tried replacing the valuebox with a DateBox but this appears to have a
>> bug. I can set the value of the DateBox in code and it displays
>> correctly. I can pick a value from the DatePicker and it displays
>> properly. But it does not have a .Text property to read so I read the
>> .Value property and it always returns "00:00:00"
> Maybe another bug then. I will investigate.
>
> Regards,
>