The WEDialogs object already exists for this kind of behavior, but
currently doesn't show much other than the Add/Remove dialog. But, if
you can provide a list of dialogs you'd like to be able to activate, we
can add them to our wish list.
Thanks,
Aaron
On 7/29/2013 11:13 AM, David wrote:
Maybe what I am here going to describe, already is possible. But in
such a case, I have never found it. Yet, it would have eased some of
the coding for given projects.
As we all know, the WE Control Panel, holds a long line of settings,
and corresponding dialogs. If I want to change Braille Display, I can
go to Devices, and Braille display, then tab over, and have a list
filled with Braille displays supported, along with the activate button
and so forth.
OK, now say I want to build an app, that is going to perform some
activity - part of it being choosing a Braille Display. Yes, I could
always build my own dialog, include a listbox and fill it with the
supported display names, and add on the buttons and edit boxes that
would copy the ones found in the WE Control Panel. But honestly, ain't
that kind of reinventing the wheel, just to make it circular this time? :)
We could have given a similar example, if your app is going to use
selection of Speech Synthesizer, or if you want to leave the user the
chance of several verbosity settings, or whatever else. No, it will
not always apply, since you might want a different layout of your
dialog, from what the standard WE Control Panel offers.
Yet, in cases where you could easily do with what is always offered in
the WE Control Panel, it would be great if GW would leave us a chance
of including these "dialogs" in our coding. Say if there was an object
named something like
WEDialog.
You then could include a code in your app, something like:
Dim NewSynth
NewSynth = WEDialog.Devices.SpeechSynth.Activate
OK, this would display the dialog for synthesizer selection, found in
the WE Control Panel. When the user has selected a synth, and hit the
Activate button, it would return the selected synth, in your variable
(NewSynth). No need for me to invent the dialog, and the end-user will
recognize it - being the familiar one he knows from the WE Control Panel.
Is anything like this possible to have included in later versions of
the GWToolkit or the like?
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