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2. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 24, 2006
• 456 views

Mike Dawes wrote:

> 2. For the Win32 Library, I seem to need another level (more basic or
> complete)
> of documentation than that accessed through the IDE Help. As an example 
> MlE Text maybe something I want, but I cannot find decent explanation of the
> Control and its parameters.
> 
> It always seems as if there is one other magic document out there which will
> unlock all this for me!

I agree that the existing documention is never enough for people starting out.
I'm responsible for most of the documentation for the win32lib and it is huge,
but it doesn't really help people learn how to do GUI.

Anyhow, I have two suggestions for now. Explore the sample/demo programs that
come with the library (there are about 250 of those) and see how its done. The
best start for doing that is to run the 'RunDemos' program.

The second suggestion is to call upon the helpful people here to give you are
few clues every now and then. For example, you mention the MleText control...that
control is useful for unformatted, multi-line text. It doesn't do
multiple-colored text, and the other things you see in a typical word processor.
Here is a drop-dead simple program to show this.

 --------
 include win32lib.ew
 without warning
 integer win
 integer textviewer

 win = create(Window, "MultiLine Box", 0, 0, 0, 400, 400, 0)
 textviewer = create(MleText, "", win, 10, 10, 350, 350, 0)
 WinMain(win, Normal)
 ------


-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
Skype name: derek.j.parnell

4. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Feb 24, 2006
• 454 views

As far as seeing the whole file that has been created,
I've never been able to figure that out myself.
I guess in IDE you go to Launch/Run and save the file.
Then look it up and open it and read it (it will be a .exw file).

I agree I think there should be away to look at it from within IDE.

Don Cole

6. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by Mike Dawes <mike at dawes.com> Feb 24, 2006
• 455 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> Mike Dawes wrote:
> 
> > 2. For the Win32 Library, I seem to need another level (more basic or
> > complete)
> > of documentation than that accessed through the IDE Help. As an example 
> > MlE Text maybe something I want, but I cannot find decent explanation of the
> > Control and its parameters.
> > 
> > It always seems as if there is one other magic document out there which will
> > unlock all this for me!
> 
> I agree that the existing documention is never enough for people starting out.
> I'm responsible for most of the documentation for the win32lib and it is huge,
> but it doesn't really help people learn how to do GUI.
> 
> Anyhow, I have two suggestions for now. Explore the sample/demo programs that
> come with the library (there are about 250 of those) and see how its done. The
> best start for doing that is to run the 'RunDemos' program.
> 
> The second suggestion is to call upon the helpful people here to give you are
> few clues every now and then. For example, you mention the MleText
> control...that
> control is useful for unformatted, multi-line text. It doesn't do
> multiple-colored
> text, and the other things you see in a typical word processor. Here is a
> drop-dead
> simple program to show this.
> 
>  --------
>  include win32lib.ew
>  without warning
>  integer win
>  integer textviewer
> 
>  win = create(Window, "MultiLine Box", 0, 0, 0, 400, 400, 0)
>  textviewer = create(MleText, "", win, 10, 10, 350, 350, 0)
>  WinMain(win, Normal)
>  ------
> 
> 
> -- 
> Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia
> Skype name: derek.j.parnell
Thank you Derek!
Another post helped me a little with my question 1.
I was hoping MleText would be an editable matrix. I am trying to convert my DOS
Sudoku program to Windows as a learning tool.
For that I want to display a 9 x 9 matrix of numbers so the user can edit blank
squares. His entry would then be an event to initiate a logic.

Isn't this editting window for the forum annoying with no word wrap!
Mike

8. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 24, 2006
• 461 views

Mike Dawes wrote:

> I was hoping MleText would be an editable matrix. I am trying to convert my
> DOS Sudoku program to Windows as a learning tool.
> For that I want to display a 9 x 9 matrix of numbers so the user can edit
> blank
> squares. His entry would then be an event to initiate a logic.

I believe somebody has created a grid control for win32lib. Try using the RDS
User Contribution search facility to find it. If that fails, I can knock up a
simple grid control for you. I wanted to do something like that anyway for the
next release so this might be just the excuse to do it.

> Isn't this editting window for the forum annoying with no word wrap!

BTW, I'm getting word wrapping on this form while using Opera. Are you going
through Topica or RDS's interface to the forum?

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
Skype name: derek.j.parnell

10. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by Kenneth Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at yahoo.com> Feb 24, 2006
• 462 views

Kenneth Rhodes wrote:
> 
> 
> > Mike Dawes wrote:
> >
> > 
> > > Isn't this editting window for the forum annoying with no word wrap!
> > 
> 
> Word Wrap is set from this page:
> <a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/usercont.exu?actionType=settings">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/usercont.exu?actionType=settings</a>
> 


Well, after you log in  :) - if the link above doesn't work, go to the account
settings
menu in the upper right of the EuForum web page.

> 
> Ken Rhodes
> 100% MicroSoft Free
> SuSE Linux 10.0
> No AddWare, SpyWare, or Viruses!
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Ken Rhodes
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12. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 24, 2006
• 464 views

Matt Lewis wrote:

> Since you brought it up ...What's the status of getting the current
> code base released?  Even if we just put up a CVS-like snapshot or something
> on sourceforge?

I'm putting the last of the patches into it this weekend and doing testing next
week. Hopefully, if everything is lookinh clean, a release the weekend after
that.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
Skype name: derek.j.parnell

14. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Feb 24, 2006
• 458 views

amux wrote:
> 
> Does anyone want to comment
> this part of a program?
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> for i = startx to endx do
> -- ERASE PIXMAP1 (OVERWRITE PIXMAP1 BY PIXMAP2 IN MEMORY)
> 	 copyBlt(pixmap1,0,0,pixmap2)
> -- DRAW GRAPHICS ON PIXMAP1
> 	drawEllipse(pixmap1,0,i,23,i+rad,(23+rad))
> -- COPY PIXMAP1 TO CONTROL WIN1
> 	copyBlt(win1,x,y,pixmap1)
>  end for
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> /amux

startx and endx have not been assigned a value and are not used in the loop

 You need something like

for x=1 to 10 do
  for y=1 to 10 do
    --I don't know what your trying to do here
  end for
end for
Don Cole
}}}

16. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by amux <jjsg at abc.se> Feb 24, 2006
• 467 views
• Last edited Feb 25, 2006

don cole wrote:
> 
> amux wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone want to comment
> > this part of a program?
> > 
> > }}}
<eucode>
> > for i = startx to endx do
> > -- ERASE PIXMAP1 (OVERWRITE PIXMAP1 BY PIXMAP2 IN MEMORY)
> > 	 copyBlt(pixmap1,0,0,pixmap2)
> > -- DRAW GRAPHICS ON PIXMAP1
> > 	drawEllipse(pixmap1,0,i,23,i+rad,(23+rad))
> > -- COPY PIXMAP1 TO CONTROL WIN1
> > 	copyBlt(win1,x,y,pixmap1)
> >  end for
> > </eucode>
{{{

> > 
> > /amux
> 
I try to use graphics in win32lib.
Fast and smooth movement, someone wrote about
using two pixmaps ,draw lines on one and then copy to window
This code works , but not smooth so maybe i have missed something.


/amux

18. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Feb 24, 2006
• 467 views
• Last edited Feb 25, 2006

Sent too soon . I still don't get the point of the x,y why not just use zeros in
the last statement?

Don Cole

20. Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Feb 25, 2006
• 476 views

amux wrote:
> 
> don cole wrote:
> > 
> > Sent too soon . I still don't get the point of the x,y why not just use
> > zeros
> > in the last statement?
> > 
> > Don Cole
> 
> It is user input , positon on win1 may be changed.
> the same x,y should be on the first row
> 
> next try will be to use bitBlt (only copy partial)
> 
> Do you have a suggestion on an intelligent editor (code-genie is smart but old
> and not supported)
> 
> 
> /amux

If you are chaging x and y the way you want them your cide seems to be all
right.

http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/edita.htm#download

Don Cole