Woops, I chopped off the notes.
Notes
1] This concept can also provide with minimal effort your own industry specific
virtual menu items. For example, say your system has a EditCustomer form that
you want to be able to access from mulitple other forms in your system. By
wrapping that form in a "virtual menu" project, which takes but a few minutes,
you can create a virtual custom control for the form.
2] The helpset development utility is buggy and there is a problem with
relative paths that I haven't got around yet (complex situation where the
target helpset file is in a "middle level" component, i.e. application project
uses vhelp component and another vmenu component, say a search utility which
also uses vhelp. I cannot solve how to extract the target help set file from
the middle component ...
3] alpha only
4] This is an interesting thing, I have a patch/hack for the IDE that lets us
run the custom control configuration editor. It is a fairly simple change to
FProperty.class around line 774:
--- FProperty.class (revision 6688)
+++ FProperty.class (working copy)
@@ -774,8 +774,15 @@
Case Else 'object
- hEditor = cmbProperty
- InitComboWith($hForm.FindControlFromType($sType).Sort(gb.Natural +
gb.IgnoreCase), "(" & ("None") & ")")
+ If $hObject.Unknown Then
+ If Project.Sources.Exist("FEditConfig.form") Then
+ Project.Run(False, -1, "FEditConfig")
+ Return
+ Endif
+ Else
+ hEditor = cmbProperty
+ InitComboWith($hForm.FindControlFromType($sType).Sort(gb.Natural +
gb.IgnoreCase), "(" & ("None") & ")")
+ Endif
End Select
It looks for a specifically named form in the current project and if found then
runs that form. The configuration must be self contained, i.e. in this case we
write an "options" text file into the source project directory. It cannot send
any information back to the IDE. Not entirely satisfactory but it does provide
some sort of proof that it may be possible to enhance the IDE properties editor
through external code.
regards
Bruce
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