Ok, I was sort of waiting for the man to comment .. however, it's an area of interest for myself. Apologies in advance if this feels a little negative, it's not intentional.
>I'm interested in finding out how to go about creating reusable components and >how to install 3rd party ones. Me too! There are reasons why you don't find many I'm afraid .. >Lastly is there a database component (ie one that you can set via properties >from within the ide for the DB of choice? AhHa! Another ex-Delphi/Kylix programmer .. ;-) No. (not yet) >I'm thinking of what was/is available in the likes of Delhpi 3 where you had >.... > a database component > a datasource > grids and table views The closest thing you're going to get for the moment is GridEditor. http://gambasrad.org/software/gambas-grideditor The reason this is still a flakey looking add-on is because it's written as a Gambas component (in Gambas) and as a result, the facilities to render the component inside the IDE (live) don't exist. That said, I'm using GridEditor in a number of (substantial) applications as in the context of what it does, I'm unaware of any bugs and performance-wise it works pretty well. (it has no problems editing tables [select's] with tens of thousands of rows) It also handles master-slave daisy chaining for dynamic / graphical updates. [Note; not that gambas written components are flakey specifically, just one's ability to present the component / properties makes the component look less than professional] That said, I'm currently writing my first "C" component and once I have it finished, I'm going to have a crack (again) at getting GridEditor to do what I (and you) think it ought to .. :) hth Gareth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "dave L" <dg...@yahoo.com> To: gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, 13 January, 2009 7:55:10 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Gambas-user] Gambas2 components? Hi new to Gambas and have been browsing for other peoples components (3rd party). not had too much luck in finding anything as yet. I'm interested in finding out how to go about creating reusable components and how to install 3rd party ones. Lastly is there a database component (ie one that you can set via properties from within the ide for the DB of choice? have created a test project and said i wanted database components in it but looking at all of them there is no database component (something that allows you to say via properties to setup the connection strings) with the others there looks like there is no visible property to connect the thing to a table or rdbms. I'm thinking of what was/is available in the likes of Delhpi 3 where you had .... a database component a datasource grids and table views thus the DB handled the link to into the db and datasource handled the link to a table with the db and the grid/views dblabels & db textboxes handled the display or entry into fields and db control manages the scrolling through the db records. hope i can get some feed back, regards, dave. Easy recipes for Christmas entertaining on Yahoo!Xtra Lifestyle- http://nz.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food-recipes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- Managing Director, Encryptec Limited Tel: 0845 5082719, Mob: 0785 3305393 Email: gar...@encryptec.net Statements made are at all times subject to Encryptec's Terms and Conditions of Business, which are available upon request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
