[Gambas-user] Where is the list of variables and prefix for them

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 16/12/2021 à 14:33, Gianluigi a écrit :
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> Il giorno gio 16 dic 2021 alle ore 13:40 Benoît Minisini 
> <g4mba5 at gmail.com <mailto:g4mba5 at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
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>     The three characters prefix for controls comes from VB. They are not
>     very coherent, because what is important is mainly detecting at first
>     sight that a symbol is a control reference, as these symbols are
>     declared automatically.
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>     So you see the three initial letters of the symbols in lowercase, and
>     you know that it is a global variable pointing at a control created in
>     the form editor.
> 
>     Then, in second, I use the three letters to tell that the control is an
>     text-related field (TextBox, TextArea, Label, TextLabel) editable or
>     not
>     ('lbl' <-> 'txt'), a button, a picture, a treeview... All that being
>     mainly for basic controls.
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>     For compound or really complex controls, the three letters are not
>     really important.
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>     Regards,
> 
>     -- 
>     Benoît Minisini
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> 
> So I'm on the wrong way.
> 
> I believed that you wanted an easy-to-store (practically automatic) 
> method of standardization of the three prefix characters for controls.
> 
> Then I will limit myself to report by copying what already present in 
> the IDE
> 
> Regards
> Gianluigi
> 

I didn't say I don't want it. I just explained why the convention I use 
in the IDE is sometimes not coherent.

The goal of all that is knowing what a symbol is at first sight as much 
as possible, with a convention that can be easily memorized.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini