[Gambas-user] myZone4

Thu Oct 6 10:58:22 CEST 2011

@Kevin Fishburne
thx:-)

@Girard Henri
thx for your future help. if You want to contribute to myZone4 please write
me.
Code source is located @ sourceforge. I wait for you!

ps. i need help about the code to insert. I have a form option where user
can choose the
preferred language.

At first, i think to add the following languages: french, english, spanish,
german.
Helpers will be appreciate.

Andrea BERTINI
Rome-Italy

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>   1. Re: myZone4 (Kevin Fishburne)
>   2. Re: gb3: unable to compile on Debian Wheezy (testing)
>      (Kevin Fishburne)
>   3. Re: Issue 2 in gambas: No native gambas for Windows platforms
>      (Kevin Fishburne)
>   4. Re: Dialog.SaveFile() and Dialog.Path problem (Rolf-Werner Eilert)
>   5. Re: myZone4 (Girard Henri)
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> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
> From: Kevin Fishburne <kevinfishburne at ...1887...>
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:16:56 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] myZone4
> On 10/05/2011 03:17 PM, Andrea Bertini wrote:
>
>> i'm happy to annunce the release of my software myZone4, made with
>> Gambas3. myZone, now nationalized only in italian (but i plan to support
>> other languages), is a nutritional and sport software.
>>
>> You can find it at my Sourceforge page, http://myzone.sourceforge.net/
>> My blog related is http://myzone4.tumblr.com/
>>
>> I want to thank my Gambas-it's friends Milio and Golia for their
>> support.
>>
>
> Congrats. :)
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> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
> From: Kevin Fishburne <kevinfishburne at ...1887...>
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:20:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] gb3: unable to compile on Debian Wheezy
> (testing)
> On 10/05/2011 06:20 AM, doriano.blengino at ...1909... wrote:
>
>> Bruce Bruen ha scritto:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 01:19 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hopefully the Debian or Mint team will get this mess sorted out so gb3
>>>> can compile without hacks. Thanks for the help anyway, and for anyone
>>>> else who sees GNOME as the walking dead, I highly recommend Kubuntu or
>>>> any other well-supported KDE distribution. I should have done this a
>>>> long time ago.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I feel your pain but it has sparked my interest following both your and
>>> Demosthenes Koptsis posts. I think that there are a few issues here that
>>> I may be able to offer some helpful comments on.
>>>
>>>  Hi Bruce,
>>
>> I liked your post, and your coloured english (especially those dinosaurs
>> starting to feel chilly) :-)
>>
>
> I'm Kevin, but that's okay. ;)
>
>  I totally agree with you - there are some standards and they should be
>> respected in the interest of all the community. In particular, given
>> that a libray in */lib (but the same is for include files and
>> executables in */bin) *cannot* be 32 bit and 64 bit at the same time, it
>> is clear that a file system is linked to the processor which uses it (at
>> least for the processor-dependent files). There are in fact special
>> directories for system-independent files.
>>
>> If some mind-broken distributions want to kill simplicity by creating
>> unnecessary directories, they should use symlinks. Ok, they could forget
>> to set up them (this would be a "bug" for me).
>>
>> That said, I would add that a user should know the bases for using his
>> computer. This means that if a user downloads some sources with svn and
>> compiles them, he should be able to interpret simple make's errors like
>> "file not found", without asking the author of the sources "why can't I
>> compile your software?". Reading documents and learning things is
>> satisfactory and good for any user. Lacking of doing this leads to think
>> that the guilty one is always someone else: the distribution, the
>> compiler, the author of the sources, the mailing lists giving wrong
>> advice and so on. There is too much people that press a button and
>> expect that everything goes well like magic and, if something goes
>> wrong, not even ask themselves what they could do to solve. Speaking
>> about computers, "magic" will be never possible...
>> No offence intended - I understand that the matter of compiling things
>> under *nix could be a good choice for a bestseller.
>>
>
> I agree to an extent. Some users just want everything to work so they can
> get their work done; their OS is a tool to an end. Other users don't get
> much work done but play with their OS all day long and become OS gurus.
> Everyone falls somewhere along that scale. I know a lot from a user's
> perspective, some from a sysadmin's perspective, and have to balance that
> with the work I'm trying to accomplish and life in general.
>
>  Marginally, I noted those complains about Debian and Gnome. Probably no
>> distributions are perfect, but surely Debian is one of the most
>> respectable - I simply love it because of its vision. By the way, KDE is
>> available in Debian. And about KDE, I just switched from it to Gnome
>> some months ago, and I don't regret. I never tried the latest Gnome, but
>> it is hard for me to think that it is only crap.
>>
>
> I like Debian and consider it the mother distro. It's essential. I do think
> of it as a new house which hasn't yet been visited by the interior
> decorators or furniture movers, though. It always seems to need some love,
> and distros based on Debian seem to give it the polish it needs. Debian was
> my first, and you never forget your first, haha.
>
> I like the GNOME 2.x branch and have used it since I first used GNU/Linux.
> My problem with 3.x is that there's no "there" there. It's like they started
> from scratch, got the bare minimum of work done, then released it. If 2.x
> had 100 features then 3.x has 10. No configuration options at all. It's
> static. Imagine a restaurant with one item on the menu and you can't even
> tell them "no onions, please". I'm not joking...give it a try in a VM and
> try customizing it.
>
> Anyway, like sensei Benoît wisely said, "Do what is better for you". I'm
> satisfied, finally.
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> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
> From: Kevin Fishburne <kevinfishburne at ...1887...>
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:26:45 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Issue 2 in gambas: No native gambas for Windows
> platforms
> On 10/05/2011 06:06 PM, Dag-Jarle Johansen wrote:
>
>> Hei, want to plug in on this discussion. by the way, "issue" is not
>> particulary something negative, issue just means "case", but I know in the
>> IT-world it*s mostly a case of a bug or a problem.
>>
>> I do not want Benoit to get sleepless nights, but it would be a
>> masterpiece
>> to get Gambas running under Windows. Running, not developing. Still MS has
>> a
>> world-part of over 80%, Max I don*t know, and the last what I saw, was
>> Linux
>> at 5%. So there is a lot to do, I ll do my part - sough - I just do know
>> so
>> little. If I have luck now, I will become a certain amount monthly, so I
>> will not have to sell any more, in this case I will use all my time beeing
>> a
>> Gambas expert. But - for that your skillls are asked, to help me getting
>> on.
>> I am still too much the VB-programmer, and what hurts is the lack of the
>> TYPE as in an array, beyond that I am not missing much. Back to MS - it is
>> to concider what they are doing. My pa has a W7 here, they are flipping
>> out,
>> and since my last programmers attempts was on a XP, and not with .NET, I
>> just skipped it, I do not know. The central registration must be horrible,
>> already in XP they started to save accessed fields in the registry - with
>> the 5 last used values. C+/+ is very fast reading textfiles, but if you
>> have
>> to do it all the time - the machine gets slow.
>>
>> Ok some of my thoughts,
>> not very pragmatic, but I think we should know what we are handling with:
>> 80
>> to 5 % for example.Gambas could double that, it is the best piece of
>> developing software near and far.
>>
>
> From what I gather, getting GAMBAS to run on Windows proper would require
> all dependencies to also work under Windows. Windows is also a moving target
> but unlike Linux is largely backward-incompatible and would require all
> kinds of hand-holding to get something working under each Windows version.
> In other words, it would be an infinitely labor-intensive mess. This is
> unfortunate, as I would like to see GAMBAS work in Windows as well. The
> silver lining is that GAMBAS shows Windows up; it embarrasses it and lets
> people know they can craft powerful and robust programs using a different
> ecosystem entirely. Streamlined virtualization under Windows is probably the
> best-case usage of GAMBAS, using something like andLinux.
>
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> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
> From: Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at ...221...>
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:23:49 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Dialog.SaveFile() and Dialog.Path problem
> Am 06.10.2011 00:26, schrieb Demosthenes Koptsis:
>
>> The Project141 is attached if anyone want to check it out.
>> i have a path with Greek-Latin characters but this is not the problem.
>> i moved the project's folder to /home/user and the problem is the same.
>>
>> 1) What is the problem.
>> When i run the code
>>
>> Dialog.Path = Application.Path
>> If Dialog.SaveFile() Then Return
>>
>> The Save dialog shows but it point to a folder upper than
>> Application.Path
>>
>> for example if
>> Application.Path="/home/user/**Project141"
>>
>> the dialog shows /home/user
>>
>
> Try "/home/user/Project141/" - does it help?
>
>  2) second problem.
>> The path at the top of dialog is not shown correctly. Some characters or
>> whole words are missing.
>>
>> Is this because of Greek letters in path?
>>
>>
>> See screenshots from Open File and Save File dialogs
>>
>>
> In the GUI you use, can you change the standard font for dialogs? It looks
> as if the font for the trees offers greek letters, the one for the labels in
> the dialogs does not.
>
> Regards
>
> Rolf
>
>
>
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> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
> From: Girard Henri <girardhenri at ...67...>
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:34:27 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] myZone4
> Thanks for your application :)
> I translated it in french if you want to add the fr.po it's included :)
> regards
> Henri
>
>
> Le 05/10/2011 21:17, Andrea Bertini a écrit :
>
>> i'm happy to annunce the release of my software myZone4, made with
>> Gambas3. myZone, now nationalized only in italian (but i plan to support
>> other languages), is a nutritional and sport software.
>>
>> You can find it at my Sourceforge page, http://myzone.sourceforge.net/
>> My blog related is http://myzone4.tumblr.com/
>>
>> I want to thank my Gambas-it's friends Milio and Golia for their
>> support.
>>
>> Andy
>>
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