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dj chainz
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Im having problems placing an icon on a button calling the winAPI with the HWND blue returns me from the button gadget. Is it possible this could be built into the next version of blue GUI? (If there is one...)

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Just a quick update - hopefully I will be able to get a new beta out shortly.

Just a few changes - notably control over word wrapping and label drawing.


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Thans so much, Rob K! No word wrapping
This will save tons of work for my IDE (same applies to Keaz).
BlueGUI is awesome, really!

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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 04:45 Edited at: 28th Jul 2005 04:46
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[EDIT: Oops, double post due to the forums being down. Still, thanks a ton!]

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Thx again RobK. Hopefully mine and Xolo's programs can show what DBPro/BlueGUI is capable of for a productivity app.

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Yes, DBp isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be for making applications (Of course, BlueGUI is the major reason for that change - thanks Rob K)

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RobK,
I know some the WindowsMessages WM_XXX can be used via getevent and postevent. What about EditMessages EM_XXX can they be accessed the same way?

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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 08:11
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Useful for undo/cut/copy through menu or toolbar
Keaz, if this is what you're trying to do:
Perhaps you should look at your own post
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=57824&b=18

Significant to this are:

and maybe:

I believe that these would return the item selected from an edit or richEdit right-click menu, and they might be able to be sent to perform the action, but only if BlueGUI posted messages are understood by Windows ???

Good luck,

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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 08:35 Edited at: 28th Jul 2005 08:59
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Actually the EM_XXX allow multiple levels and I think they are possible through postEvent. I'm going to have fun!

P.S. I'm going to add them to my post once I verify it.

[Edit]Update - So far it's causing my program to crash... ,but fear not I'll keep working at it.

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Good luck . (Although I'm still not sure what you're doing.)

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I've found how to send EM messages (it's the same way as WMs) However, I don't think that windows picks up on events sent with postEvent.
See the DarkBlue IDE wip thread.

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yeah its currently at the top of the board and is highly important

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Things like that should be e-mailed to Rob K not posted on a semi-private forum. I informed him of this bug about a month ago.

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Sorry, I was just trying to help

[And I don't have access to email]

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Quote: "semi-private forum"


If you are referring to rob k's bug board on his blue 2 site then i wouldn't call it semi private, as everyone who can access it has to have bought blue gui

If you are refering to these forums then that is why no detail about the bug have been said on this forum

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Sorry for the delay, I'll release the updates as soon as I get back from holiday (unfortunately bandwidth here is *very* expensive)

postEvent messages don't go through the windows messaging system, they just push events straight onto BlueGUI's event queue.

If you need to send messages, use the SendMessage API function (the function name is "SendMessageA" for use with CALL DLL I think). Remember that you have to pass the window handle (obtained using gadgetHandle) not the gadget's handle as returned by the createXXX functions.

EM_XXX messages are normal windows messages. In fact, using this you can get a great deal of control over gadgets (most kinds of gadget have messages for this).


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SendMessageA works - I've got some sinippets of its uses at the DarkBlue Beta IDE thread.

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Does anyone know how I can check if a button gadget is held down?

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Not directly. You'de have to check for mouse presses (MOUSE_CLICK-1) and then wait till mouse release (MOUSE_CLICK). It's sort of tricky though, I tried it.

Any news of the next update, Rob K?

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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 16:19
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Sorry for the delay, I have had quite a bit to do since I returned.

The good news on the BlueGUI front is that I am now working through the reported bugs and feature requests.


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Hey Rob K, i discovered you awsome program a while ago, but will order it in the next week, i need an information.

Oh, btw, this plugin is one of the best ever made for DBPro. It looks awsome. My information i need is: If i understand, with this, i can code my own gui in DBPro or use the drag n' drop designer?

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Skalex - You can code the gui in DBPro by hand or use the rainbow program which comes with BlueGUI. It alows you to drag and drop gui gadgets. It's much faster to build a gui using rainbow and then fine tune the code in DBPro.


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You can either code the whole interface in DBPro, or you can design it using Rainbow, and then modify the exported code.


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BlueGUI 2.05 Released - See Updates page on the BlueGUI Website: http://blue.robert-knight.net/?view=updates

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Thanks guys, Blue gui will be mine after a little 20$ to spend

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I tried to compile the Carlab application with the new 2.05 and all the gadgets dissapeared, (They were visible pre 2.05)

I had to create a panel to make the visible again, they were not visible when I only had them on the main screen ?

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Quote: "I tried to compile the Carlab application with the new 2.05 and all the gadgets dissapeared, (They were visible pre 2.05) "


Label gadget backgrounds are transparent by default in 2.05, so they no longer have a grey background. If you need gadgets that behave like labels in previous versions, use panel gadgets instead.


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I've just installed it but when I click on my combobox selections it's as if it's detecting menu clicks because it's displaying my different windows when it shouldn't. Any idea what's going on? Also what is the button_click event mentioned in the change log? I can't find it in the help.

edit - I think the gui.dba is missing the button_click too

I see there is a double click too, cool. Lots of nice updates

edit2 - after a quick look at my code I think "if eventType()=MENU_CLICK" is returning true even though I'm only clicking on my combobox selections


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Quote: "- Selected text in edit and richedit controls can be changed in code using setSelText"

Wow, you've implemented so much; nice job . I guess I can take out some of my functins now, which will be nice (I had my own replaceSel function, but it will be much nicer to use BlueGUIs so I don't have to fiddle with memory.)

Thanks especially for the word wrapping control, I never could have done that on my own .

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setdialogoptions 1,asc("|") is giving me an error when trying to compile.


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What error?


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This is what I get. It's like as if the command doesn't exist in the keywords but i checked and it is and it highlights too. I tried it Blue IDE and the default editor.




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Can you double check the DLL was installed in the plugins-user folder correctly (ie. what is the modification date of the gui.dll file?)


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Posted: 29th Aug 2005 20:31 Edited at: 29th Aug 2005 20:39
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Yeah the new dll is definately there. It's only 89kb, and the old one was 168kb. Can you run the command without any problems? Is anyone else having the same problem with the command?

Hmm I just checked the other new command setdialogowner and it's giving me the same problem, yet all the other gui commands are working. Could it be using some old version stored elsewhere?

Edit - Ok I got it working, sorry about that. I had the old gui2.dll in the compiler directory in case I needed to revert back to it. So I just renamed the file and it's working now. Strange how it was still using that file even though it wasn't in the plugins folder. I'm still getting the problem with the comboboxes opening my menus though. Is this a problem you can confirm?


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Hi xtom,

I realised that I hadn't documented something about that. In your "if eventType()=MENU_CLICK" line, add the condition "and eventDataEx()=0" as well.


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Ahh thanks Rob, works like a charm now.


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Quick update on Rainbow - The 2.05 release (Rainbow 1.03) has a major bug (label rendering) and various minor bugs which have cropped up since the previous release. I am currently in the process of fixing these for release asap. I am also rethinking the choice of making labels transparent by default.


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Thanks again for all the updates .

Quote: "I am also rethinking the choice of making labels transparent by default."

Actually, I'd agree. For even one program I'd have to change quite a lot to fix my would-be broken code. Perhaps something like setting the color of the label using setGadgetColor to -1 could make it transparent? Otherwise, a setGadgetColor 0 would also work because rgb(0,0,0) [black] returns bytes 255-0-0-0 while 0 returns bytes 0-0-0-0.

Also, I was wondering if it would be possible from a Windows standpoint to make the text of radio/checkboxes change color with setGadgetColor.

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Yes, please allow labels to be opaque... transparency is causing me troubles. Perhaps a command setLabelTransparency or something.

Here's what happens when I port IonRay to BlueGUI 2.05:


The line number labels don't become transparent to the panel below, but other apps and numbers!


[EDIT]
I changed them to labels and now it works, so I guess labels being transparent is fine. But I still don't know why the text was messed up in the above picture, while some labels work.
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[EDIT2]
Actually, my other labels are weird now too. They are either completely transparent or setGadgetColor isn't working on the text color of labels anymore. The documentation for setGadgetColor isn't quite what it should be, either. I was hopeful when it said that it affected radios etc., but it only affects their background color; the foreground remains black. So what I did previously was put labels over the text; now I'll have to put panels.
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[EDIT3]
Sorry for the double post etc. I've got everything working now, although by bypassing transparent labels by making a function to handle panels the same way:

O is for opaque.

Thanks again for no wordwrap, it works wonderfully . I still haven't been able to try all it's new and great features.
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