[Gambas-user] Communicating to hosted forms...

[Tobias Boege]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 30.12.2014, 16:45 +0100 schrieb Tobias Boege:
> > On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, den 30.12.2014, 07:27 -0500 schrieb Stephen:
> > > > Attached is a test harness that tries to implement the following.
> > > > 
> > > >    FormMain hosts two other forms (Form1 and Form2) within two frames 
> > > > (Frame1 and Frame2). On each of these hosted forms there are two text 
> > > > boxes and a button. Pressing the button on either of the hosted forms 
> > > > raises an event that pushes the value in TextBox1 up to the forms 
> > > > parent. The object of the exercise is to push the value received in the 
> > > > event to TextBox2 of the other hosted form.
> > > > 
> > > >    Have a look at the project example, I can't seem to get a handle 
> > > > (sic) on how to communicate to the child forms from the parent.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Salut Stephen,
> > > 
> > > now its to you to find all my changes
> > > 
> > 
> > You can still send a patch :-P
> > 
> 
> Salut Tobi,
> 
> while never used, I jump to the occasion and made one.
> Q: I would like choose the files but couldn't uncheck 
> 

Yes, the handling was weird: you needed to select one or multiple rows
before you click on the checkbox. A click on the checkbox alone would not
select a row, so nothing changed.

I think it's better with #6785. Don't you think?

> And if you are on the listview with the checkbuttons and every time
> you step back to the source archive and the forward again the file list
> is added one more time to the listview.
> 

This was a bug, also fixed in the latest revision.

I cross my fingers for your first Gambas patch :-)

Regards,
Tobi

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