[Gambas-user] A good idea? Revisited again.

[B Bruen]

Woops, I chopped off the notes.

Notes
1] This concept can also provide with minimal effort your own industry specific virtual menu items. For example, say your system has a EditCustomer form that you want to be able to access from mulitple other forms in your system.  By wrapping that form in a "virtual menu" project, which takes but a few minutes, you can create a virtual custom control for the form.

2] The helpset development utility is buggy and there is a problem with relative paths that I haven't got around yet (complex situation where the target helpset file is in a "middle level" component, i.e. application project uses vhelp component and another vmenu component, say a search utility which also uses vhelp. I cannot solve how to extract the target help set file from the middle component ...

3] alpha only

4] This is an interesting thing, I have a patch/hack for the IDE that lets us run the custom control configuration editor.  It is a fairly simple change to FProperty.class around line 774:
--- FProperty.class    (revision 6688) 
+++ FProperty.class    (working copy) 
@@ -774,8 +774,15 @@
 
     Case Else 'object
 
-      hEditor = cmbProperty 
-      InitComboWith($hForm.FindControlFromType($sType).Sort(gb.Natural + gb.IgnoreCase), "(" & ("None") & ")") 
+      If $hObject.Unknown Then 
+        If Project.Sources.Exist("FEditConfig.form") Then 
+          Project.Run(False, -1, "FEditConfig") 
+          Return  
+        Endif 
+      Else 
+        hEditor = cmbProperty 
+        InitComboWith($hForm.FindControlFromType($sType).Sort(gb.Natural + gb.IgnoreCase), "(" & ("None") & ")") 
+      Endif 
 
   End Select
 
It looks for a specifically named form in the current project and if found then runs that form.  The configuration must be self contained, i.e. in this case we write an "options" text file into the source project directory. It cannot send any information back to the IDE.  Not entirely satisfactory but it does provide some sort of proof that it may be possible to enhance the IDE properties editor through external code.

regards
Bruce
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B Bruen <adamnt42 at ...626...>