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

[Fabien Bodard]

this is the good POO way !

2015-01-01 23:39 GMT+01:00 Stephen <sbungay at ...3301...>:
>     When, at the project level, all controls on all forms are set to be
> public, the 'Public' property for each control on each form continues to
> indicate that it is NOT Public. This is misleading.
>
>    The 'Public' property of all controls should reflect the reality,
> that it is publicly visible, and that property should then be made
> uneditable. A tool-tip might have to be put in to explain why it is
> uneditable, i.e. that the property was set at the project level.
>
>    The only way that I can see out of my conundrum is to create a
> property in in each form to which updated information is to be pushed.
> The property write will process the received data and put it where it
> needs to go. It promises to be a pain in the neck to implement but will
> give more granular control, it may also make maintenance a nightmare, so
> I'll have to give this more thought.
>
>    Once again, thanks for the assistance.
>
> On 01/01/2015 03:57 PM, Tobias Boege wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Jan 2015, Stephen wrote:
>>> I just extracted the archive from the email, loaded it and of course it
>>> works perfectly.
>>>
>>> I had this;
>>>
>>> mhform1.textbox2.text = value
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> mgform2.textbox2.text = value
>>>
>>> in my original code but I kept getting "null object" every time it tried
>>> execute the line.
>>>
>>> Thanks for putting up with my stupidity and taking the time to help out.
>>>
>> That's why I found it better to send a patch in this case (I attach the one
>> with Charlie's changes). You will see that he switched a setting in the
>> project properties:
>>
>>    +ControlPublic=1
>>
>> which makes all controls on all forms public variables (they're private by
>> default for reasons of sanity). With this setting enabled, your problem is
>> trivial as you see.
>>
>> I think Charlie wanted you to find that setting by yourself. I think this is
>> a bit unfair as the setting is well hidden in the project options dialog :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tobi
>>
>>
>>
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