[Gambas-user] GB3 Custom controls

[Fabien Bodard]

well your controls are in the toobar ! in the paddy's hill tab


Public Const _Group As String = "Paddys-Hill"



2011/11/7 Bruce Bruen <bbruen at ...2308...>:
> I thought I had figured out all the secrets, but no.
>
> This is about custom controls (hereafter "CC") written in gambas.
>
> What I've found out so far
> 1) Declaring one of the hidden constants with the value set to the
> default causes problems, e.g. _IsContainer=False
> 2) (Related) Don't use the _DrawWith constant without care as it will
> crash the IDE if the form is left open.
> 3) The Controls directory containing the icons now has to go under the
> Project directory and migrating a GB2 project doesn't move them.
> 4) It would be really, really nice if IsContainer was a RO property
> exposed by all controls
> 5) It would be really, really, really nice if all controls had a
> AcceptFocus property (IDE visible) so things like Picture boxes can be
> skipped in custom navigation code
> 6) The IDE now makes testing a custom control library project really
> easy, except:
>    a) it doesn't display the controls like they would appear in the
> finished product.
>    b) the gb problem of having to reload the project if a new CC class
> is added still seems to exist.
> 7) Issue # 123 GUI dependencies in library projects not exposing any gui
> dependency is a real pain.
> ...and about a gazillion things about the differences in behaviour
> between gtk and qt4 (but they are not gambas problems).
>
> So I have now partially converted my first level CC library from gb2 to
> gb3 and its real good!
> But what do I do now?  How do I make it useable in the IDE?
> (Apart from 7 above I don't consider any of these to be gambas 3
> issues.)
>
> I have figured out that I can see the CC's in a form (*) in the IDE if I
> add the CC component to the IDE and recompile it (well actually, ran it
> inside itself).  And they look real good and are displayed as they will
> in the finished product (allowing for the visual difference b/n QT4 and
> GTK).  But the controls don't show up in the toolbox??
>
> (*) Done by importing a GB2 project "mocked up" to use the GB3 CC
> library control names
>
> I have tried sticking the library executable and the library.component
> file in /usr/local/gambas3 but that achieves nothing.
> I have tried sticking the library executable in /usr/bin with no joy.
>
> Would some of you nice people tell me what it is that I haven't done,
> please.
>
> I have attached a mockup of (part of) the library. But I don't think I
> have missed anything in the code???
>
> Bruce
>
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Fabien Bodard
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