> Kadaitcha Man wrote: > > You don't need to know C. Simply inherit the control in > > Gambas code then wrap your methods and properties around it. > > DOH! I should have thought of that. <insert lame excuse here> Thanks! > > Either I've found a bug, or I'm not doing something right. The doc says: > > "To provide the icons of your component controls, you must create a > /control directory at the root of your project, and put one PNG file for > each control icon in it. > > The name of a control icon must be the class name of the control in > lower case with the .png extension." > > I tried that but it just shows a black question mark in the IDE panel > when I load the component. The component itself works as expected. Are > there any other requirements needed of the icon? I'm currently using a > 32 x 32 PNG file, named in all lowercase the same as the component. I'm > running Gambas3 on Ubuntu 9.10. >
In Gambas 3, the /control directory must be put inside the "Project" section. > Am I allowed to use *optional* arguments in the _new sub of the > component? Or am I not suppose to pass arguments to _new? > Arguments passed to the constructor are consumed by each inherited _new methods in reverse order. If you use optional arguments in inherited constructors, they must be provided too. > I know I have to pass the name of the parent container when I use it at > runtime. I currently have it working using arguments in the _new sub and > passing the parent name at the end of the argument list. However, the > last argument I was using is *optional*. If I leave the optional > argument empty, the IDE says the parent name is 'unexpected'. If I pass > Null as the optional argument just prior to the parent name, naturally > it's the wrong data type for the argument. I'm probably missing > something obvious again. Go ahead and smack me. Please provide the details of what you have done, and maybe I will tell you. Regards, -- Benoît Minisini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user