[Gambas-user] Class Window in gb.qt4 vs gb.ncurses

[Fabien Bodard]

A temporary solution will be to make a secondary project that manage the
printing.
Le 5 mai 2013 09:03, "Tobias Boege" <taboege at ...626...> a écrit :

> On Sat, 04 May 2013, Jesus wrote:
> > Recently a friend of mine reported an issue that I'm not sure how to
> > explain correctly.
> >
> > He is making a terminal program that needs to print stuff on a real
> > printer, so it needs the gb.qt4 component to get access to the Printer
> > object. But also he needs to use gb.ncurses to do some neat presentation
> > in a terminal in a kind of interactive mode. Problem arises when the
> > *Window* class in gb.ncurses collides with the same class name in gb.qt4
> > (needed to gain access to printer functions) It seems that window class
> > in gb.qt4 surpasses the one in gb.ncurses.
> >
> > So, is it a known problem? Does anyone realized this "incompatibility"
> > when using both components at the same time?
> > Is there a way to use the printer without using gb.qt4?
> >
>
> I never thought of using a graphical component together with gb.ncurses. I
> never intended that :-) The thing is, the only way to make gb.ncurses'
> TUI-graphical classes compatible with X-graphical classes is to insert
> dummy
> methods and properties (e.g. Opacity, Picture) that do nothing and at the
> same time to remove ncurses-specific functions (e.g. Print, Cls) which
> makes
> it twice ungood. Removing such methods calls for something like a Draw
> class
> as a replacement interface which doesn't make much sense as only text can
> be
> displayed (there would be more dummy functions for the Draw class).
>
> What do you mean actually by "surpasses"? Is there an "incorrectly
> overridden" error or does the gb.qt4 Window just override[0] the gb.ncurses
> one? If the latter is the case, you can try to disable gb.ncurses and
> Component.Load() it manually at startup?
>
> I promise that future control classes and a future Window class (using the
> CDK) are more built like their gb.qt4 models but for now think of
> gb.ncurses
> as a component that conflicts with other graphical components. I don't
> think
> compatibility can ever be achieved, though.
>
> Anyway, good to know that someone can do "neat presentation"s with
> gb.ncurses :-)
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
> [0] Here is what happens:
>     http://gambasdoc.org/help/doc/object-model?v3
>
>
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