On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 10:46 +0100, Tobias Boege wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Bruce wrote: > > Did someone recently speak about having developed a "statusbar" form > > control? > > > > If you mean[0], then yes, roughly. There was a StatusBar class from > Raymond de Bruijne (Gambas2) which I changed to be more Gambas3. > > (However, I haven't worked on it since I posed that question because > the answer kind of disappointed me. But looking at it again, it seems > pretty plausible.) Anyway, do you want to see it? There are at least > three versions of this class in use in Hans' projects and I couldn't > find the "good" one just now... I'll finish the "StatusbarForm" idea > and then publish the thing in a separate article... > > Regards, > Tobi > > [0] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31629361 >
Tobi, Yes, that was the mention. Having re-read that thread (and I have no idea why the search I did failed for it?) and you comments above, it seems to be at the same state my old gb2 one was, wherever it is. Or probably a bit better, because if I recall correctly, I could not ever really work out what I was trying to achieve. Since I never got far, I sort of forgot it and got on with life. I remember thinking at the time that it was such a basic idea how come there wasn't a native one. Since then I have discovered that life on the planet has actually continued without it. But, in fact "Some people seem to like this sort of thing." is exactly what happened this week. "They" want a status bar. It's no big deal really. I was just hoping that someone had one that might get "them" off my back. So, whenever. I had another go yesterday at creating a custom status bar control, but yet again, came up against the same problem of deciding what it is I actually want. I know some of the things I want: - an IDE configurable number of sub-panels, - automatic layout, including "springiness" for at least one of the subpanels, - user interaction with the statusbar to stretch a sub-panel relative to the others, - (biggy) event response, so when something happens in the application the app can raise an event handled by the statusbar to do/show something. Every time I get to that last one, is where I start trying to work out what that really means. ( I am going to get a bit historical now. ) Some time in the last century I did write a (cough) VB (cough) component (cough, lets call it an "addin" at best) that did do whatever it is I am talking about. While I write this I am starting to remember that it was actually a nightmare that involved all sorts of callbacks... and things... Enough! As I said, I was hoping for an easy way out. But 2013 seems to have staggered on towards the "final act" which means that probably very little "work stuff" will be achieved here at paddys-hill over the next couple of weeks. So to you and yours and all who may be listening, have a great and safe festive season, a memorable new year and a fantastic 2014. best regards Bruce p.s. It was 43 degrees here yesterday. That's Celsius, not Fahrenheit. Today is a bit better, it's 32 at 3pm. As such, I may have to go out now and find some small quantity of cold liquid refreshment, lest I dehydrate! :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user