[Gambas-user] Hello! Thanks!

[Serban Stanescu]

*Hello everybody!**
*

1. My name is Şerban Stănescu, I am from România and I just started 
learning Gambas.
"Ş" in my name is spelled as --> EN: Sh, FR: ch and "ă", like the first 
two letters in "another".
Since my French is poor, I'll stick to English.

*2. I just wanted to say "Thanks" to the Admin: Thanks Benoît!*
And *a warm <HELLO!> to all people around here!*

*3. My programming skills*... Are poor. I am a self-taught, so lower 
your expectations.
I have some experience though...
I started learning with VB (5.5? That was back in 1995), then I tried my 
hand with some CPP (C++)
and then I tried *RapidQ*, which I really loved. Same concept as Gambas, 
but... for Windows. Long story, so I'll skip it.
That was till 22-07-2012, when I moved for good to Linux. Never used 
Windows since.
Sometime ago, I found Gambas. One month ago, I started learning.
Had lots of trouble with the documentation, but I managed to rebuild 
from scratch a program
I made years ago in RapidQ, called /*CD Manager*/ (was listed on 
nonags.com and got 5 ducks out of 6).
It is a simple program, designed to list directories and save results 
into .txt files, for archive information management purposes.
It allwes me to search the DirLists (hence the name: *DirLister*) and 
then perform various searches for WhatEverRequired,
list the results, save the list, narrow the search and so on.

It's easier to find a file in such a list than mangling with media. And 
my archives, exceed 2 TB of data.
So, if you grasp the idea of looking for a needle in a hay stack, you 
understand my point.
Here are 2 screenshots:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2697670833614144
I chose the URL due to image size. I guess the list supports some 250 K 
files so adding many files lead to a waste of space.

_*4. To Benoît.*_

*A. Amazing RAD!* Has more than I dreamed of!
*B. The [Dir] class* has a flaw. I needed a flag to exclude some 
files/directories. Among the constants it is required a 
[gbListCurrentUser],
otherwise the program rises the [Access Denied] error when encountering 
say, "root/root" or other owner than the current user.
Using the App as Root on the other hand, it's something to better avoid, 
except for experienced users.

*C. The [Dialog] class.* It took me a lot of time (many hours!) to 
figure out that the [Dialog.SelectDirectory()] class is actually the
[Dialog.OpenFile()] stripped down. Bad programming choice, since if you 
use the <Dialog.Filer =[...]> somewhere and then you try to open a 
directory.
the dialog shown is crippled and useless. You first need to issue a 
dummy call of the class with <Dialog.Filer =[""]> in order to delete the 
previous filters.
The "Choose Directory" dialog will never ever show, but you can select a 
directory in this way. If possible (= can do it in a reasonable time),
change the hierarchy of the classes and make [SelectDirectory] the 
superclass and then add the prototypes for [OpenFile] and create the 
subclass for this control.
This way you avoid similar collisions and who-knows-what-else...

*D. SearchBox for the documentation site.* Sorry, but using the 
documentation is such a curse! The only option is to move back and forth 
through pages,
looking for WHAT? How is anyone supposed to know what he's looking for, 
supposedly that the "something" really is there?
Does anyone expect from someone NEW to Gambas to know already 
everything? If so, what's the purpose of the documentation?
It takes about 300% more time to find something IF you'tre lucky enough.
Otherwise, it takes up to 10 times more time moving back and forth 
through countless pages, in the hope you'll find something useful.
A SEARCH function, very much like in 
https://lists.gambas-basic.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi, would solve the problem.
Also, in the built-in Help, would be very helpful a SEARCH function.

Best regards!
Şerban




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