Re: [Gambas-user] Submitting "Example" Candidates

2014-02-20 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
>>> Please let us know the name of the program when it is added to the examples. I could learn a lot from it. great job. Tom: I've sent Benoît the source files, so look for RandomColorSort as the project name, with the descriptor "Random Colors, Sorted by Hue". I hope it's helpful to people l

Re: [Gambas-user] Submitting "Example" Candidates

2014-02-20 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
Night On 02/18/2014 08:18 PM, Benoît Minisini [via Gambas] wrote: > Le 19/02/2014 02:09, Louis W. Adams, Jr. a écrit : > > > What is the best way to submit a GAMBAS program to be considered as an > > example for beginner programmers? I have a simple pro

[Gambas-user] Submitting "Example" Candidates

2014-02-18 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
What is the best way to submit a GAMBAS program to be considered as an example for beginner programmers? I have a simple program to offer, which shows how to do a few basic things that I struggled with while learning GAMBAS. (I'm still learning.) It generates random colors and sorts them by hue

Re: [Gambas-user] Accessing Project Data in a Text File

2014-02-10 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
> It is NOT for your program's volatile data! In fact, you cannot write to > one of these files from within the program (but you can from the IDE.) The links you suggested were helpful, thanks. The data in my file is always used when the program is run, program constants you could say. I placed

Re: [Gambas-user] Accessing Project Data in a Text File

2014-02-09 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
> Are you talking about your project at design time in the IDE or when your > project runs, i.e. do you want to look at the file or does your program > need > it at run time? I guess the second but it's not clear to me... I added my data file (a text file) to the Data section of the project during

[Gambas-user] Accessing Project Data in a Text File

2014-02-08 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
I have a project with a text file associated with it. So there is a tab displaying the data imported into the project (?) from the text file. How do I access the data? Since the project is already aware of the data, I wouldn't think that it's necessary to Open the file and Read its contents as w

Re: [Gambas-user] Drawing Area Location in Screenshot Depends on Window Location on Desktop

2014-02-05 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
> Taking a screenshot to get the DrawingArea contents seems to be a very ugly method to me. I think it's ugly too, but I'm the only one using the programs I write so I'm the only one offended. I'm a GAMBUS newbie, and I've been very confused by posts that explain the proper way to convert the int

Re: [Gambas-user] Drawing Area Location in Screenshot Depends on Window Location on Desktop

2014-02-05 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
> Use dachart.screenx, dachart.screeny and you will have what you want. Thanks very much, that works perfectly. It is still the case that what I reported seems to be a bug that ought to be fixed. Lou -- View this message in context: http://gambas.8142.n7.nabble.com/Drawing-Area-Location-in-S

[Gambas-user] Drawing Area Location in Screenshot Depends on Window Location on Desktop

2014-02-05 Thread Louis W. Adams, Jr.
I have a drawing area control daChart on a form. To extract an image of that control area using screenshot, I expected that the following would work, where picSave is a Picture object. The number 28 accounts for the window control frame at the top for my screen resolution in Ubuntu (1920x1080).