Everything works now?
Jussi On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Stephen <sbun...@smartsonsite.com> wrote: > Uh huh. It figures, almost four hours after the initial post, > frustration levels climbing, I sent that email then the solution hits me > square between the eyes. > > Yes use cached mode. > > On 09/03/2014 11:18 AM, Stephen wrote: > > Paint.Begin and use cached mode? Trying that now. > > > > On 09/03/2014 11:14 AM, Stephen wrote: > >> Typographical error in the code (not that it is causing a problem). > >> This line > >> > >> mDrawingAreaMatrix[X] = NEW DrawingArea(Panel1) AS "Card"& > CInt(X) > >> > >> CInt(X) is redundant and not at all what I was thinking about when I > >> typed that line. It should more properly read; > >> > >> mDrawingAreaMatrix[X] = NEW DrawingArea(Panel1) AS "Card"& > CStr(X) > >> > >> I'm beginning to think that what I am trying to accomplish is not > >> possible. How can a Draw event that is not in the compile-time source be > >> accessed during run-time? > >> > >> On 09/03/2014 06:39 AM, Stephen wrote: > >>> Attached is a sample project that dynamically instantiates 10 > >>> business card sized DrawingAreas within a Panel on a forum. The form > >>> represents a North American letter-sized sheet of paper. Since the > >>> Draw event must be used to draw within each of the Drawing areas, and > >>> the the Drawing Areas are brought into existence at run-time, the > >>> question is how to draw something on them? > >>> > >>> The actual project uses a database to dynamically create (or > >>> re-create) QR or Barcode images. > >>> > >>> Steve. > >>> > >>> On 09/02/2014 07:05 PM, Stephen wrote: > >>>> On 09/02/2014 06:22 PM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote: > >>>>>> I guess it is the need to use the draw event in order to do anything > >>>>>> with the drawing area that had me spun. I think in terms of methods, > >>>>>> properties and events, but I do not think in terms of events being > the > >>>>>> very thing that actually does the work. > >>>>>> > >>>>> Draw event is called every time drawingarea needs to be drawn. > >>>> Yes, so we force the event by the refresh method. I'm slowly > making > >>>> progress... documenting things as I go. Thank you taking the time to > >>>> help. > >>>> > >>>>> Thus it is > >>>>> where you put the drawing commands. > >>>>> > >>>>> But you can change this behavior by setting Cached property to True. > >>>>> Then you start painting by determining painting device (Gambas > >>>>> cannot know > >>>>> where to draw, if you are not in specific drawing event) > >>>>> Paint.Begin(hNameOfPaintingDevice) and end with Paint.End. > >>>>> See the documentation. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> I'm thinking of it now in terms of Macros, using the Object.Call(me, > >>>>>> $sFunctionName) treats the code in $sFunctionName like a Macro, (am > >>>>>> I on > >>>>>> the right track?) Flexible& powerful yes. Intuitive in it's > >>>>>> usage, not > >>>>>> so much. > >>>>>> > >>>>> This only enables you to use string value to call a function. There > are > >>>>> many alternatives for this. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> One of the things that really confused me was the paint.reset > command > >>>>>> telling me it had no device.... ummm... no "device"? To me a device > >>>>>> is a > >>>>>> piece of hardware, a printer, a modem, a screen, keyboard, mouse, > >>>>>> soundcard, NIC, Com port etc. > >>>>> In Unix/Linux device has bit broader meaning, see example /dev/null > or > >>>>> /dev/random. Not all devices are physical devices. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> BTW, how does reset differ from clear? > >>>>>> > >>>>> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.qt4/drawingarea/clear > >>>>> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.qt4/paint/reset > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Jussi > >>>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>>> > >>>>> Slashdot TV. > >>>>> Video for Nerds. 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