Attached is a sample project that dynamically instantiates 10 business card sized DrawingAreas within a Panel on a forum. The form represents a North American letter-sized sheet of paper. Since the Draw event must be used to draw within each of the Drawing areas, and the the Drawing Areas are brought into existence at run-time, the question is how to draw something on them?

The actual project uses a database to dynamically create (or re-create) QR or Barcode images.

Steve.

On 09/02/2014 07:05 PM, Stephen wrote:
On 09/02/2014 06:22 PM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
I guess it is the need to use the draw event in order to do anything
with the drawing area that had me spun. I think in terms of methods,
properties and events, but I do not think in terms of events being the
very thing that actually does the work.

Draw event is called every time drawingarea needs to be drawn.
     Yes, so we force the event by the refresh method. I'm slowly making
progress... documenting things as I go. Thank you taking the time to help.

Thus it is
where you put the drawing commands.

But you can change this behavior by setting Cached property to True.
Then you start painting by determining painting device (Gambas cannot know
where to draw, if you are not in specific drawing event)
Paint.Begin(hNameOfPaintingDevice) and end with Paint.End.
See the documentation.




I'm thinking of it now in terms of Macros, using the Object.Call(me,
$sFunctionName) treats the code in $sFunctionName like a Macro, (am I on
the right track?) Flexible&   powerful yes. Intuitive in it's usage, not
so much.

This only enables you to use string value to call a function. There are
many alternatives for this.




One of the things that really confused me was the paint.reset command
telling me it had no device.... ummm... no "device"? To me a device is a
piece of hardware, a printer, a modem, a screen, keyboard, mouse,
soundcard, NIC, Com port etc.
In Unix/Linux device has bit broader meaning, see example /dev/null or
/dev/random. Not all devices are physical devices.




BTW, how does reset differ from clear?

http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.qt4/drawingarea/clear
http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.qt4/paint/reset



Jussi
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