Re: How to get & set text in clipboard ?

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You could have a look at the WinAPI clipboard implementation of NiGui: 
[https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/blob/master/src/nigui/private/windows/platform_impl.nim#L421](https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/blob/master/src/nigui/private/windows/platform_impl.nim#L421)

Re: GDI-style lib for Nim.

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So far NiGui does not provide functions to draw multi line texts. If you want 
to do this, you can use
splitLines() and increase y for each line by getTextLineHeight() plus maybe 
some line spacing.

And thanks for reporting the [black shadow 
bug](https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/issues/83), it's now fixed.

Re: GDI-style lib for Nim.

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@Aiesha_Nazarothi: To get the height of a text line use 
canvas.getTextLineHeight().

Re: GDI-style lib for Nim.

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NiGui provides getTextWidth (which regards line breaks) and getTextLineWidth 
(which is for one line of text). Can you please report the "text with black 
shadow" as GitHub issue? There shouln't be any shadow.

Re: GDI-style lib for Nim.

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You could use GDI+ directly. Or the Cairo library. There are several bindings 
for Nim.

NiGui wraps both GDI+ and Cairo. Example program: 
[https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/blob/master/examples/example_10_drawing.nim](https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/blob/master/examples/example_10_drawing.nim)

Re: NiGui examples?

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I wrote an answer here: 
[https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/issues/79](https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/issues/79)

Re: Recommended GUI library?

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I'm the author of NiGui.

@rockcavera Please create an GitHub issue for the refresh issue you described. 
Maybe it's easy to fix.

@marks You're right, the documentation is still a missing part.

Nimrod support in Geany editor

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The mentioned PR for Geany is still not merged. It should be updated to use 
"Nim" instead of "Nimrod".

I figured out, for syntax highlighting it's enough to have a filetype 
configuration file, which uses the Python parser. I have uploaded this file to 
[https://github.com/trustable-code/geany-nim-filetype](https://github.com/trustable-code/geany-nim-filetype)

Re: Should we get rid of style insensitivity?

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I think a vote with two options is not sufficient to find out, what users 
really need. Maybe the rule for identifier equality should get adjusted to give 
users more freedom in naming things: A leading and trailing underscore should 
be allowed. I guess there are some users coming for example from C, C++ or 
Python, who are used to have such underscores as part of their naming 
convention and they don't want to be forced to change it. 

Re: [poll] Moving all RFCs in a separate repo

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-1, I think in the main repo they get more attention.| 

Re: `import foo {.private.}` to allows access to private fields (eg: package-level visibility)

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I like the idea and would call it `{.exposePrivate.}`, because that is what is 
does in my understanding.

Re: Windows WIC or GDI+

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I don't know about a GDI+ module, but you could take a look at the code of 
NiGui to see, how it is used there:

  * [GDI+ 
binding](https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/blob/master/src/nigui/private/windows/windows.nim#L472)
 (not complete)
  * [method 
loadFromFile()](https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/blob/master/src/nigui/private/windows/platform_impl.nim#L698)
 using GdipCreateBitmapFromFile()

Re: Why can't the Nim VM use FFI?

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I think it would be possible, e.g. with libffi.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libffi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libffi)

[https://github.com/Araq/libffi](https://github.com/Araq/libffi)

Re: Off-subject GTK check-resized signal

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My Gtk3 implementation uses the `configure-event` signal; in the handler it 
calls `gtk_window_get_position()` to get the new window size. 
[Source](https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/blob/master/src/nigui/private/gtk3/platform_impl.nim#L53)

Re: A fast float to string conversion library

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Nice :)

btw, I don't like the libc functions, which are currently used in strutils, 
because it produces unexpected output for some numbers, example:


formatFloat(65000.45, ffDecimal) = 65000.44970896


Run

With ffDefault it's ok, but it will switch to scientific notation potentially.

Oh, and with precision = -1 it also gives unexpected output: 


formatFloat(65000.45, ffDefault, -1) = 65000.4


Run

Re: How to call SendMessage API function with WM_GETTEXT message >

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You can take a look on the WinAPI function 
[GetWindowText()](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winuser/nf-winuser-getwindowtexta)
 and the [implementation of 
NiGui](https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui/blob/master/src/nigui/private/windows/platform_impl.nim#L112-L116).

Re: Pure really removed for enums?

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I prefer non-pure enums with prefixed field names (and underscore as separator) 
because:

  * it's simple
  * names are easier to copy & paste, because you can select them by double 
click
  * by reading a field name you know the enum name
  * no wrong results in text search

Re: Can't install nim on Win 8.1

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Maybe relevant: 
[https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5086](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5086)
 (How did this get fixed?)

Re: Enums pure & namespaced by default

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I think pure enums should be default because of these advantages:

  * more beginner friendly
  * the name of enum elements is simpler and easier to guess, because it 
doesn't need a prefix (or in other words: the prefix is always the name of the 
type)
  * maybe more intelligent auto-completion in IDEs in the future



For example, I had a name collision trying to do this: 


type XAlign* = enum left, right, center, spread
type YAlign* = enum top, bottom, center, spread