[Gambas-user] Another "good" idea but no real ideas

[Bruce]

On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 09:41 +0200, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Bruce wrote:
> > I saw something the other day, it was a multi-windowed terminal in which
> > each window was running a separate shell. I have attached a mock up of
> > what I was seeing.
> > At the time I didn't think a great deal about it, but today it turns out
> > that something like that would be a great solution to a local problem,
> > i.e. "tail"-ing several log files in a program that runs continuously or
> > for some time. I have the technology to manage the several logging
> > streams from the program but setting up multiple terminals manually to
> > follow the output (to Temp() files is painful.
> > 
> > So
> > a) would it be possible to create something like this in gambas, i.e. a
> > form with multiple "terminal" windows in it, each running it's own shell
> > b) how the heck would one approach it?
> > 
> > regards
> > Bruce
> > (in "blind-Bambi" mode)
> 
> I never really used that control but this looks like you could use an
> Embedder[0] to make another application work for you from inside your
> window. This would be a totally lazy approach :-)
> 
> If you want your own terminal window to not be so dependent on the presence
> of other software, you can write a form and use Workspace[1]. A few days ago
> I saw that we also can do
> 
> hForm = New FMyForm(dwgDrawingArea)
> 
> and it works like a charm. Why implement custom controls when we can easily
> compose windows and instantiate them to a DrawingArea? :-)
> 
> Anyways, with these two ways, it shouldn't be that difficult to get a view
> (and function) very similar to the picture.
> 
> Regards,
> Tobi
> 
> [0] http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.qt4/embedder?v3
> [1] http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.form.mdi/workspace?v3
> 
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Well that was simpler than it looked :-)
Thanks Tobi