[Gambas-user] Release 3.3.1, gtk ColourChooser is somewhat broken

[Fabien Bodard]

http://www.gambasdoc.org/help/doc/naming?v3

Then this is a,right way to learn. Benoit can explain you a lot.  Don't be
so scary
Le 2 oct. 2012 02:51, "RICHARD WALKER" <richard.j.walker at ...247...> a
écrit :

> > You must ensure that:
> >
> > - It is correctly indented.
>
> OK there I think. Everything is appropriately indented. The size of
> the indent is tweakable in the editor preferences. I set it to 4
> spaces as I am used to that.
>
> >
> > - Variable, functions... have good names.
>
> All of the functions (apart from three procedures) are event handlers
> of one sort or another but within those constraints they are quite
> well named
>
> > Following the convention of the IDE source code is a must.
>
> I have loaded gambas3 into the IDE to have a look at the code. From a
> quick scan it looks like there is a definite "style" with variable
> names where "noise" characters are prepended to add
> language-implementation-specific meaning.
>
> I have seen this in other Gambas programs and I think I could write
> some code to mangle the names in my program appropriately but I think
> I will need a table of codes and their meanings. There does not appear
> to be a one-to-one relationship between Gambas types and letter
> prefixes, though I cannot be sure without checking more code. My best
> guess so far is :
>
> a = array of any type
> b = boolean
> c = container ?
> h = several different things, mostly Objects
> i = integer, short, byte
> s = string
> $ = can be added in front of one of the above to signify ... ?
>
> Use of these prefixes would also appear to imply that all variable
> names (the real part) must start with a capital letter.
>
> Is there a reference page for this somewhere? I'll have a look tomorrow.
>
> >
> > - It is english (some examples are not in english, but this is not a
> > good idea).
> >
>
> Phew! That's a relief. I can even provide a translation for American:-)
>
> > When I will check that the way of doing things is right. I mean, if it
> > is an example of what to do, it should do things right. Or it will be an
> > example of what not to do.
>
> Damn! That's the end of that then :-( Seriously though, I reckon that
> one is the killer. Although the program is quite small there are one
> or two places where I couldn't determine the "right" way to get
> something done, and research didn't help, so I just kept modifying my
> code until it would work, or I gave up and went another way.
>
> Or put it another way, on reflection I would be too embarrassed to
> have the father of Gambas read my effort. I might have a go at
> something simpler which merely uses the font and colour choosers - I
> don't think they have been featured yet.
>
> Richard
>
>
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