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Inspire

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Posted: 25th Jun 2007 04:06 Edited at: 28th Jun 2007 06:23

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I'm not entirely sure that this is the correct board, because I'm new to the DarkBasic side of these forums, but I'm having a little dilemma at the moment.

I'm trying to make a menu using BlueGui 2, which I just bought. Right now I'm just doing a basic test. I made the menu using the Rainbow Editor, so I don't think the menu could be screwed up. Here's what I have.

`User Interface Setup Code
`===========================================
startBlue "user","password"
SET WINDOW ON
SET WINDOW TITLE "Inspire! Engine"
SET WINDOW LAYOUT 1,1,1
createUI()
createMainMenu()

DO

getEvent

if eventSource()=MENU_CLICK
    select eventData()
      case 1 : 'New
        message "Hello World"
      endcase
      case 7 : `Exit
        end
      endcase
    endselect
  endif

LOOP

`Call createUI() to setup the user interface
`-------------------------------------------

`Global Variable Declarations for Gadgets
`----------------------------------------

`Menu Gloals
`-----------
    global menu

#constant MENU_FILE 0
    global menuFile
    #constant MENU_NEW 1
    #constant MENU_OPEN 2
    #constant MENU_SAVE 4
    #constant MENU_SAVEAS 5
    #constant MENU_EXIT 7

`Create User Interface
`---------------------
function createUI()
    If Not GUI_CONSTANTS Then errorMessage "GUI Constants not defined.  Please include gui.dba when you compile" : end

endfunction

`Create Main Menu
`----------------
function createMainMenu()
menu=createMenu(0)
    addMenuItem menu,"File",0

menuFile=createSubMenu(menu,0)
    addMenuItem menuFile,"New",1
    addMenuItem menuFile,"Open",2
    addMenuSplitter menuFile
    addMenuItem menuFile,"Save",4
    addMenuItem menuFile,"Save As",5
    addMenuSplitter menuFile
    addMenuItem menuFile,"Exit",7
endfunction

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`User Interface Setup Code
`===========================================
startBlue "user","password"
SET WINDOW ON
SET WINDOW TITLE "Inspire! Engine"
SET WINDOW LAYOUT 1,1,1
createUI()
createMainMenu()

DO

  getEvent

  if eventSource()=MENU_CLICK
    select eventData()
      case 1 : 'New
        message "Hello World"
      endcase
      case 7 : `Exit
        end
      endcase
    endselect
  endif

LOOP


`Call createUI() to setup the user interface
`-------------------------------------------

`Global Variable Declarations for Gadgets
`----------------------------------------


`Menu Gloals
`-----------
    global menu

    #constant MENU_FILE 0
    global menuFile
    #constant MENU_NEW 1
    #constant MENU_OPEN 2
    #constant MENU_SAVE 4
    #constant MENU_SAVEAS 5
    #constant MENU_EXIT 7

`Create User Interface
`---------------------
function createUI()
    If Not GUI_CONSTANTS Then errorMessage "GUI Constants not defined.  Please include gui.dba when you compile" : end




endfunction

`Create Main Menu
`----------------
function createMainMenu()
menu=createMenu(0)
    addMenuItem menu,"File",0

    menuFile=createSubMenu(menu,0)
    addMenuItem menuFile,"New",1
    addMenuItem menuFile,"Open",2
    addMenuSplitter menuFile
    addMenuItem menuFile,"Save",4
    addMenuItem menuFile,"Save As",5
    addMenuSplitter menuFile
    addMenuItem menuFile,"Exit",7
endfunction

What I'm trying to achieve here is when the user clicks "New", it opens a pop-up message which says "Hello World", and "Exit" ends the program. Every time I try to compile, the DarkBasic editor gives me an error message saying "Constant declaration for 'MENU_FILE' duplicated.". I have included the gui.dba before I compile. Can anybody help me out?

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jason p sage

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Posted: 25th Jun 2007 04:18

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Make sure if you have the gui.dba included in your project you don't also have a line like #include "filenamehere.dba".

I had this problem before and you are essentially causing the file to be included twice - and hence the constant is declared twice - and throwing you this error.

Also note - you may simply have that constant declared in two or places in your program if the first tip doesn't help.

Do a search for "MENU_FILE" and if you find more than one #CONSTANT MENU_FILE in your project (check all included files) then one of gots to go!

Good Luck
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Posted: 25th Jun 2007 05:41

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Hey, thanks Jason. I got it working now.

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Posted: 25th Jun 2007 06:36

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Arg...one problem to the next I guess. Just tested it out, and the buttons don't do anything, even though I specified what they did.

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Posted: 25th Jun 2007 06:57

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Glad I got you through the first issue (I got help for that same issue in here also)..just passing on the help... but...

Unfortunately I don't know Blue GUI - never tried it etc.

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Posted: 27th Jun 2007 19:54

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Got the buttons working!

But now I have another problem. When I create the status bar and the tool bar, neither of them show up.

Example:

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global Statusbar
Statusbar=createStatusBar(0)

And nothing shows up. The main menu shows up totally fine. The functions I've already programmed in work fine too! I'm not saying the above snippet is my entire code. And yes, I used startBlue.

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Posted: 27th Jun 2007 20:48

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I might be wrong but I don't think you are allowed to post your user key and ID in the code. And also you don't need to globally declare Statusbar, it can just be:

Statusbar=createStatusBar

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 06:35

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Woah, I'm sorry, I can't believe I did that. I could have sworn I got rid of it. Woah. I apologize. Edited it out. Sorry again.

What would the benefit of declaring Statusbar globally? Because the Rainbow Editor sure does favor doing it. I usually just use the editor to see what I want, and then I program it without using any exported code. But any way I do it, it's not working. Your way doesn't work either, vorconan.

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 22:04

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Quote: "Woah, I'm sorry, I can't believe I did that. I could have sworn I got rid of it. Woah. I apologize. Edited it out. Sorry again. "

It's ok, no problem

Quote: "What would the benefit of declaring Statusbar globally?"

It's just so you can edit it globally. If you just put it like I did, you wouldn't be able to assign a different value to the variable unless you did so inside the function itself.

Quote: "
But any way I do it, it's not working. Your way doesn't work either, vorconan."

Ok, I've created some code manually because I personally don't get along with the rainbow editor. I find it much easier to follow when it's done manually because there is a lot less variable declaration. It also doesn't need the gui.dba file, here's the code for you anyway, everything works.

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Sync On
Sync Rate 0

Set Window Title "Inspire! Engine"
StartBlue "USER ID" "KEY"
CreateUI()

Do

   GetEvent

   If EventType()=MENU_CLICK
      Select EventData()
         Case 11
            Message "Hello World"
         EndCase
         Case 15
            End
         Endcase
      EndSelect
   Endif

   Sync
Loop

Function CreateUI()

   MainMenu=CreateMenu(0)

         AddMenuItem MainMenu,"File",1

         FileMenu=CreateSubMenu(MainMenu,1)
         AddMenuItem FileMenu,"New",11
         AddMenuItem FileMenu,"Open",12
         AddMenuSplitter FileMenu
         AddMenuItem FileMenu,"Save",13
         AddMenuItem FileMenu,"Save As",14
         AddMenuSplitter FileMenu
         AddMenuItem FileMenu,"Exit",15

         StatusBar=CreateStatusBar(0)
         ToolBar=CreateToolBar(0)

EndFunction

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Posted: 29th Jun 2007 09:11

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Yeah, I code the GUI manually too.

I tried the code you posted, and everything shows up fine, except that the menu functions didn't work. I'll try screwing around with it tomorrow.

Another BlueGui problem. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. If anybody could find some sort of error in my code, then please tell me, because this is driving me nuts.

When I compile the following code, nothing shows up unless I resize the window, in which the buttons flash in and out randomly. Can somebody please test this out and tell me if it does the same for them?

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#include "gui.dba"
startBlue "USERID","Key"
set window title "Inspire! HelpingHand"
set window layout 1,1,1
set window size 115,195

createMainMenu()
createUI()

do
 getEvent
loop

function createUI()
    newBookmark=createEdit(10,10,90,20,0,menu)
    oldBookmark=createComboBox(10,35,90,100,menu)
    makeBookmark=createButton(10,60,90,25,"New Bookmark",0,menu)
    saveBookmark=createButton(10,95,90,25,"Save Bookmarks",0,menu)
    openBookmark=createButton(10,130,90,25,"Open",0,menu)


    addItem oldBookmark,"My Documents"
    addItem oldBookmark,"My Pictures"
    addItem oldBookmark,"My Music"

endfunction

function createMainMenu()
 menu=createMenu(0)
endfunction

Also, what is the best way to keep the user from resizing the window?

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 02:56

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Anyone?

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 19:00

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The reason why your buttons are flashing is probably because of your window mode. If you change it to 'windowed' mode, the flashing should go away. If you are running fullscreen, change it to windowed etc. This may also fix your menu problem.

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 01:53

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Laos - a thought - maybe a bad one but - I program for a lot of different languages - and what you described sounds like the "paintwindow" event that windows generally "react" to when a user sizes the window. This event is used to initially draw the window contents - and is called when the window is resized. The good thing in your case is that you can explicity call it.

Basically - you take the window "handle" (kind of a pointeR) and pass it to the window messaging via a call to SendMessage(blah blah). There is a constant for Paintwindow. When Darkbasic is doing its house keeping - it will see this "request" or "Message" and will react the same way it does when the user indirectly generates one via mouse moves, , alt-tab, resizing etc.

This might not be ideal - I realize that - but if "resizing" more or less fixes it - it may be a workaround for ya to investigate.

Look for the Win32 API - and if you have prob's I can get you a help file likely to help you.

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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 11:46 Edited at: 4th Jul 2007 11:46

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Quote: "I tried the code you posted, and everything shows up fine, except that the menu functions didn't work. I'll try screwing around with it tomorrow."

Try replacing eventdata() with eventsource(), worth a shot.

EDIT - I wasn't using the gui.dba file, so you don't need to include it, if you already did that is.

THREAD - http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=109497&b=24&p=0

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