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Re: New win32lib and XML

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jan 06, 2004
• 369 views

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:02:14 +1100, Derek Parnell
<ddparnell at bigpond.com> wrote:

>I'm already ahead of you. In the next win32lib, it would be possible to define
>a window and its controls in a text file. This can then be used at run time to
>instantiate the actual Windows controls. Its syntax is a bit but more compact
>than XML. Your example above would look something like ...
>
>  window, caption={Dialog Example} at={0,0} size={320,200}
>   
>    flags={new,ws_popup,ws_clipsiblings,ws_caption,ws_sysmenu,ws_ex_dlgmodalframe}
>    font={Comic Sans MS,10}
>
>  label,caption={Static Text Example}, at{32,29}, size={70,11}
>
>  editbox, name=1000, at={32,76}, size={78,14}
>
>  icon, at={32,96}, size={32,32}, picture=xyzzy.ico
>
>  button, caption={&OK}, at={86,179}, size={50,14}
>
>  button, caption={&Cancel}, at={183,179}, size={50,14}
>
Nice. How about applying a font or other attribute to more than one
control? Where's the design? 
>
>Let's say you create these lines in a file called 'MyDialog.form', then your
>app would read ...
>
>--------
>  createForm( "file=MyDialog.form" )
>
>  global procedure Activate_Dialog_Example(integer self, integer event,
>  sequence parms)
>   . . . 
>  end procedure
>
>  global procedure Click_OK(integer self, integer event, sequence parms)
hmm.
What if I have several xxxDialog.form files, and several button,
caption={&OK} ...? Or do you mean that in the absence of a name
attribute, and/or provided the caption is unique, and/or Click_OK is
expected to use getParent or similar to figure stuff out?

>Am I getting close?
Very.

Regards,
Pete