Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
If that's your only point, Carl > continue to use it. To put VB6 onto Windows XP, I insert the CD, > click a few times, put in my keycode and it is done. Heaps and heaps > of online help, both from MS and the net. The installation process > for Gambas into Linux, plus other components gets bett

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Yes Tobias, you put it in the last paragraph: > No doubt, migrating windows users (VB6 or not) are potential Gambas users > and their number may be greater than the ones I was talking about but let's > don't concentrate on any particular group and let Gambas evolve naturally. I > don't like the no

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Carl Nilsson
Jussi: Re Ubuntu: I don't know what went wrong - maybe it was my hardware - I'll try again sometime. Re the munix9 repository: Yes, I think the packaging was at fault. I saw a reference to that somewhere. There was a useful guide to installation on http://gambasdoc.org/help/install?en&view&v3,

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
I see your all three replies..? Some time ago I had actually bought a set of DVD's with openSUSE12.2, > Bought? It's free! > ... after unsuccessfully trying to intall Lubuntu and Ubuntu on an older > computer. > Off topic for this list, but I'm curious what went wrong? > However, gambas3

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Carl Nilsson
Let's try this! Jussi said: "But instead of guessing what were the troubles, please tell us, it's only way to improve things." That's a fair question. Some time ago I had actually bought a set of DVD's with openSUSE12.2, after unsuccessfully trying to intall Lubuntu and Ubuntu on an older compu

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Carl Nilsson
Now I'm having trouble with the mailing list! Here's my response to a fair question. >Some time ago I had actually bought a set of DVD's with >openSUSE12.2, after unsuccessfully trying to intall Lubuntu and >Ubuntu on an older computer. (I'll try again some time). However, >openSUSE 12.2 ins

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Carl Nilsson
Jussi said: "But instead of guessing what were the troubles, please tell us, it's only way to improve things." That's a fair question. > > >Some time ago I had actually bought a set of DVD's with >openSUSE12.2, after unsuccessfully trying to intall Lubuntu and >Ubuntu on an older computer. (I

Re: [Gambas-user] Stopping an event when user clicks on the form menu

2014-01-23 Thread Charlie Reinl
Am Freitag, den 24.01.2014, 09:56 +1030 schrieb Bruce: > I have a form with a textbox that "MUST" be filled in before moving on > to the next control or any other control within the form. Fine, so I > implement a txtManditory_LostFocus method that just checks that there is > some text in there. >

[Gambas-user] Stopping an event when user clicks on the form menu

2014-01-23 Thread Bruce
I have a form with a textbox that "MUST" be filled in before moving on to the next control or any other control within the form. Fine, so I implement a txtManditory_LostFocus method that just checks that there is some text in there. My problems are: 1) if the entire form loses focus, the lostfocus

[Gambas-user] Issue 503 in gambas: Debian packages: Lintian warning debian-changelog-line-too-long

2014-01-23 Thread gambas
Status: New Owner: Labels: Version-TRUNK Type-Bug Priority-Medium OpSys-Linux Dist-Debian Arch-Any Desktop-Any GUI-Any New issue 503 by computer...@gmail.com: Debian packages: Lintian warning debian-changelog-line-too-long http://code.google.com/p/gambas/issues/detail?id=503 1) Having ju

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread ISS Boss
Hi, Tom. I have to take a small issue with your last few sentences. I an definitely NOT knowledgeable in LINUX (Ubuntu) and definitely cannot compile all the new changes in Gambas as they come hot off the press, but I did manage to install Ubuntu in under an hour and create my first

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
> I know a lot of people will say "its not that hard" or "I did it in only > four > hours" but you are already knowledgeable in Linux. > No one has born with skills to use Windows or Linux. But installing Windows or Ubuntu is almost exactly the same. I didn't notice any significant difference. The

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Tom
I have to agree 100% with Carl! I too have experience programming GUI's for about 15 years with VB6. I have a very small amount of Linux experience. The reason I am reading this list is that I did not like .Net and wanted to find an alternative to VB6. I found Gambas and it looked good. I man

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread nando
I cannot thank Benoit(et al) enough for Gambas. I am very, very, happy with it. I started with 1.0.4. Did a huge major corporate/mobile thing with 1.0.17/18 and working with 2 and 3 now on other items. As an old-timer, I can write an old-style program or do super OO with it. I cannot say enough.

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Carl Nilsson
Tobias: Thank you for reply. I think maybe you misunderstood a couple of points I was trying to make. I was not criticizing any language, particularly not Gambas. Nor was inferring that Linux is not a great set of op. systems, one or many of which would be of long-term advantage to a user. Sw

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

2014-01-23 Thread Tobias Boege
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Jussi Lahtinen wrote: > I would guess by far the largest number of potential > > - not current - users are those who have come from Windows and > > VB6. If they are long-standing users of Linux, then they are > > probably conversant with C, etc. and don't particularly need/wan

Re: [Gambas-user] Report control label color

2014-01-23 Thread Fabien Bodard
Thank you for the advise... it's corrected in the last rev 6099. 2014/1/22 nero : > Hi all, > > I'm starting using report control but cannot find a way to set a label color > , I've try with something like: > > lblID.Brush = ReportBrush.Color(Color.red) > lblID.BackGround = ReportBrush.Color(Colo

Re: [Gambas-user] Issue 495 in gambas: Toolbar config doesn't set button width properly

2014-01-23 Thread gambas
Updates: Status: WontFix Labels: -Version Version-TRUNK Comment #1 on issue 495 by benoit.m...@gmail.com: Toolbar config doesn't set button width properly http://code.google.com/p/gambas/issues/detail?id=495 You must set the AutoResize property of your toolbar buttons to TRUE.

Re: [Gambas-user] Issue 493 in gambas: IDE Refresh Project button doesn't reload symbolic links

2014-01-23 Thread gambas
Updates: Status: Fixed Comment #3 on issue 493 by benoit.m...@gmail.com: IDE Refresh Project button doesn't reload symbolic links http://code.google.com/p/gambas/issues/detail?id=493 It should be fixed in revision #6098. The linked form will be updated by the "reload" button, not by th

Re: [Gambas-user] Issue 493 in gambas: IDE Refresh Project button doesn't reload symbolic links

2014-01-23 Thread gambas
Updates: Status: Accepted Labels: -Version Version-3.5.0 Comment #2 on issue 493 by benoit.m...@gmail.com: IDE Refresh Project button doesn't reload symbolic links http://code.google.com/p/gambas/issues/detail?id=493 (No comment was entered for this change.) -- You received th