Re: [Gambas-user] Deprecated controls and components

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 15/11/2015 03:03, adamn...@gmail.com a écrit :
> Hi Benoît,
>
> A few questions.
>
> 1. How are you marking a control as being deprecated e.g. LCDNumber?
> It would be quite handy at the moment for us to do the same thing. We
> have a significant number of clean up work going on currently and I'd
> like to be able to mark some old custom controls the same way.

Public Const _Group As String = "Deprecated"

>
> 2. Similarly, how are you marking components as deprecated, e.g.
> gb.sdl? I note that deprecated components no longer appear in the
> selection list for project properties even though the source is still
> in the repo.

In the project property dialog, "information" tab : set the component 
advancement to "Deprecated".

For components written in C/C++, you must update the *.component file by 
hand.

To see deprecated components in the component list, click on the little 
button located at the top left of the list.

>
> 3. The Embedder control is now deprecated, is there a replacement?

No. This feature will disappear with Wayland I guess, so supporting it 
is worthless.

Regards,

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Re: [Gambas-user] Deprecated controls and components

[adamn...@gmail.com]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 03:19:07 +0100
Benoît Minisini  wrote:

> Le 15/11/2015 03:03, adamn...@gmail.com a écrit :
> > Hi Benoît,
> >
> > A few questions.
> >
> > 1. How are you marking a control as being deprecated e.g. LCDNumber?
> > It would be quite handy at the moment for us to do the same thing. We
> > have a significant number of clean up work going on currently and I'd
> > like to be able to mark some old custom controls the same way.
> 
> Public Const _Group As String = "Deprecated"
> 
> >
> > 2. Similarly, how are you marking components as deprecated, e.g.
> > gb.sdl? I note that deprecated components no longer appear in the
> > selection list for project properties even though the source is still
> > in the repo.
> 
> In the project property dialog, "information" tab : set the component 
> advancement to "Deprecated".
> 
> For components written in C/C++, you must update the *.component file by 
> hand.
> 
> To see deprecated components in the component list, click on the little 
> button located at the top left of the list.
> 
> >
> > 3. The Embedder control is now deprecated, is there a replacement?
> 
> No. This feature will disappear with Wayland I guess, so supporting it 
> is worthless.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> Benoît Minisini
> 
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Excellent!
Thanks
bruce

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