[Gambas-user] gb.form.mdi : Attach/Detach

[Fabien Bodard]

So in a gimp way ?
Le 1 juil. 2014 06:29, "B Bruen" <bbruen at ...2308...> a écrit :

> I am doing some experiments with detachable tabs in the gb.form.mdi
> component.  A couple of things have come to light that I would like to
> suggest (as a basis for discussion, rather than a bug or whatever).
>
> 1) There is no way to completely detach a window from a workspace.
> That is, for example: suppose I have two workspaces on a form (or to
> abstract even further perhaps two workspaces on two concurrently active
> forms) and I want to move the current tab from this workspace to that
> workspace. I have proved I can do that almost successfully by, to put it at
> its' simplest:
>   Workspace1.Detach(hWindow)
>   Workspace2.Add(hWindow)
> but the association with Workspace1 remains and has some interesting side
> effects.
> So, it appears (to me) there is no way to completely dissociate hWindow
> from its' original Workspace.
>
> 2) When a window is Attached to a Workspace it is not automatically made
> the ActiveWindow.
> This may be "by design" but if I want to make the ActiveWindow in code
> then there does not seem to be anything like an "Attached" event in the
> Workspace that I can catch to effectively make this automatic Activation
> happen.
> (I have found a reasonably simple workaround for this but it is not
> "intuitively obvious".
>
> 3) Similar to 2) there is no "Detached" event available whereby I could
> set some values in the Workspace concerned or even in the detached window
> that would allow me to affect later processing.  That's obscure.  Suppose I
> have, as above, two workspaces and when I detach a window from one I need
> to know later "which workspace it was detached from", it would be nice to
> say set the Tag property to the name of the "original workspace".  Either...
>
> 3a) Because I would like to implement a menuitem in the detached window
> that would allow a "Re-attach" action.
> 3b) Because  even when the window is detached I may like to Reparent it in
> some other container .... :-) tricky eh?
>
> 4) The Detach/Attach/Reparent methods are not exactly ... how can I say it
> .... developer friendly?
> Suppose I want to move a window from a workspace to some other container.
>  When the window is associated with a workspace, ReParent does not work -
> and silently at that.  The window must first be detached and then
> reparented.  Conversely, moving it from another container to a workspace
> involves a (fake) reparent, then either a Workspace.Add or, given that
> there is no completely detach method, a Workspace.Attach call.
>
> As I said, these things are not really bugs or complaints, rather a
> "Request For Comment".  I have a demo project displaying some of these
> things which I will post if there is some interest.
>
> But, imagine an IDE wherein you could have both the form design and the
> form code visible at the same time in an hsplitter, or where you could have
> two (or more) class codes visible at the same time, or the ability to move
> one of the "bits" of the properties tab to the bottom "debug" panel of the
> IDE, or even move the toolbox into a vsplitter under the project browser
> instead of having it clutter the bottom of the properties sidepanel ... or
> even for that matter moving the properties thing into the middle pane... or
> or or. Get my drift?
>
> Anyone familiar with, for example, how the Modellio layouts can be
> manipulated in this way will understand what could be achieved here for the
> gambas IDE.
>
> regards and looking forward to comments
> Bruce
>
> --
> B Bruen <bbruen at ...2308...>
>
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