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DLL Talk / BlueGUI Windows Plugin - Post Feature Requests (&Bug Reports)

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Rob K
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Posted: 20th Jan 2006 23:57
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Hello,

I will have more time to devote to BlueGUI at the beginning of February, if there are any features that existing users would like to see, please post them on the Bug Report page (http://blue.robert-knight.net/?view=updates)

Any other interested DarkBASIC developers, feel free to post ideas in this thread.

A few people have asked me about a trial version and demos to play with. I will try and prepare one by the end of February.


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Space Fractal
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Here is some problems I have. Glad to here, youre are back to work .

- BlueGUI halt Dark Basic process, when a user press something or using the top menu. This is not fine, because the graphics diddent update, and can cause menu graphics to glitch (The first popup it dosen't delete the graphics, when selecting a another). [llok the small picture]

- BUG: BlueGUI getevent is very slow to invoke, when the sync is set to on (SYNC ON), when a Dark Basic 3D window is used.

- Possible to add a "tab" to the window, like close/minimize button to a existing window (using GetWindowLong from user23 (if I remember correct).

http://www.PlayITgame.org

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Rob K
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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 19:01
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Regarding the second one, that isn't a fault with getEvent. BlueGUI maintains a queue of events, and getEvent retrieves the event at the front of the queue.

If your program is running at a lowish frame rate, say 30FPS, and only one call to getEvent is made per loop, that would mean that only 30 events per second could be processed. The solution is to process all outstanding events at the start of the loop, not just one. This means repeatedly calling getEvent and acting on that event until there are no more events left ( ie. eventType() will return 0 )


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Juso
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Rob K, could you make scrollbars to move with gadget's size if it is resized. I mean webbrowser gadget. Or is there a code to keep scrollbars at their right place?
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Is it possible to stop the web browser gadgets from clicking when they are updated, maybe by adding an optional flag or something?
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D Ogre
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How's it going with BlueGUI, Rob?

I know there is an old plugin for dumping bitmaps to the printer. Is it possible to get a printDialog() box or something worked out for BlueGUI?
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the web browser gadget clicks as it is part of internet explorer, only way of stopping it would be to use a different browser engine i think, but im not sure


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@Rob K is the BlueGUI halting Darkbasic Processes going to be fixed?because there are some things I would like to use BG with but if it halts the process then thats going to be very bad...


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Rob K
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Quote: "@Rob K is the BlueGUI halting Darkbasic Processes going to be fixed?because there are some things I would like to use BG with but if it halts the process then thats going to be very bad..."


There isn't much I can do about some of those scenarios - Windows will jump into a loop and nothing happens until it finishes. There is usually a solution to such problems though - perhaps using a slightly different user interface instead.


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@ RobK,

As well as allowing you to add colour and font properties to gadgets within Rainbow, is there any chance of adding the following command -
a$ = inputDialog(Title,QuestionCaption,DefaultAnswerText[optional])

would make it so much easier to input basic text string replies to basic questions...?

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I had a whole message here until my mouse went crazy and clicked the [x] button . But anyways...

The click event - it would be really cool of BlueGUI could detect whether a click was a "true" click: eg: started on the object and was released on the object, registering when the click is released.

And generally any of the following functions:


And don't worry, I don't expect that any of these are in the least bit feasible, but they would be cool. And it's an awesome plugin . Thanks.

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Wilf
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Hi Rob,

Currently it doesn't seem possible to have a button gadget display both an image and text at the same time. I need to dynamically change the text on a button; is this a bug or am I missing something?
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Submenus to popupmenus
Tooltips
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Skinnable windows...
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I know this is off topic, But I think there should be some contests where the prize is Blue GUI!

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Quote: " Submenus to popupmenus"


That is already possible using the same mechanism that is used to add submenus to regular menus. If you aren't sure how to do this, send me an email and I'll post a code sample.


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Copying images to Canvas gadgets.
I tried doing it point by point from a bitmap, but it took 1.5 seconds for a 100x100 jpeg.

When dialog boxes appear, they tend to wipe away labels that are belong to or are on top of frames. This can be resolved manually with PaintGadget, but it can be tedious and requires you to know when to Repaint. So if possible, a sort of command like:

GadgetInvalid(gadgetname)

similar to the window invalid() of DBP, but for gadgets!

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i use a combination of buttons and menus, the when i click a button it does it's own command but also a command off the menu

there's nothing wrong with my code as i've had it checked by about 10 people

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Allow the webgadget to be resized. It is a problem that has been pestering me for awhile now. We corresponded via email a few months ago, hopefully that issue will be resolved. I know it functions differently than other gadgets do, but there should be a solution.

I can't think of anything else

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Posted: 9th Jun 2006 16:10 Edited at: 9th Jun 2006 16:11
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@Alquerian

You can resize webbrowser if you delete and create it always when it has been resized. Also flickering disappears if you wait about 700 ms after creating new webbrowser.

This code works for me
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Hello,

Just to notice Robert this bug we have found :

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=78893&b=18

Thanks
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Not exactly a feature request or bug report, but why cant I call startBlue from C++ using a

void startBlue(char*, char*)

I can get it to show the error that I didn't give my key and pass by doing a createWindow call, but I get a crash when i try to call startBlue....
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Do you need to pass it strings rather than chars? The UserID and Key are typically more than one character (or at least they are for me)

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char* means an array of chars, aka a string (because of the *)

[EDIT] Also, C++ does not have a default string type built in
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Also BlueGUI is not officialy supported within DarkSDK so there may be error with it, atleast I think so!

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What do you think about a function like "highlightstring handle gadget,string,font,color". It would highlight certain string in a rich edit boxe. Like in IDEs.


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Quote: "
char* means an array of chars, aka a string (because of the *)

[EDIT] Also, C++ does not have a default string type built in
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Oh... duh . I didn't get the array * because I haven't programmed in C, but I have done some Java. And yeah, there wasn't a string type either, but a String class.

Please accept my apologies for my stupidity.

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