[Gambas-user] IDE doesn't show picture property of a custom Button control

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On 10/5/23 9:01 pm, Bruce Steers wrote:
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> On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 11:04, Jorge Carrión <shordi at gmail.com 
> <mailto:shordi at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi, everybody.
>     I'm making a control that is a Button that supports a background
>     image. It works reasonably well, but the IDE doesn't show me the
>     selected Stock image. All the buttons look the same at develop
>     time and that's confusing.Does anyone know how to make the IDE
>     recognize the Picture property and display the image as it does
>     with, say, the Button control?I attach a small project that
>     illustrates what I say.
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> Not really.
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> gambas IDE form designer can only show native controls,
> The IDE loads the controls internally and that are coded to both 
> construct at runtime and to display in the IDE also. so it's not a 
> good idea to allow custom made controls to load into the IDE itself as 
> it can cause problems/crashes. So they do not.
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> I added code to my gambas IDE that "does" load custom controls and 
> made them visible but it's no longer working due to some recent changes.
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> Maybe if you made your class inherit Button not UserControl you may 
> get it to show the images but at best all you will see is the generic 
> Button in the IDE not any of your custom drawings.
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> BruceS
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You know, in 2023 I would really like this to work. 🙁
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