Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:52:52 +0000:
> Fisrt: MSEclock. > > It compiles and runs fine. (when copy all files > from /MSEclock/newdialogs/ into MSEclock) > - The Font dialog: very nice and usefull, t should be added in > MSEgui/MSEdialogs. I suppose that the options Bold, Italic, If you wish - but it's not really finished yet, due to the "somewhat idiosyncratic" way Martin implemented the font selection for msegui.. I find it a bit suboptimal, by any means it is unusual at least. And that's the reason why the options you mentioned are not functioning yet - I didn't find a good way to map these settings to the regular X11 font attributes. These attributes are idiosyncratic in their own way, specifically in so far as there is no universally applied scheme, neither for their naming nor for their availability, and it seems to be close to impossible to derive all variants in a consistent manner. There's another "new" dialog, "hidden" in the "eXperimentals" menu. It's a "find" and "replace" dialog, which I think is sorely missing from the msegui spectrum of dialogs. There should really be a standard one available in my opinion. But lacking any useful application, all the menu does is display either version of the dialog, allowing you to enter something, and discard all when you dismiss it. It's just to show how this might look like. > ' Rounded form works well too. Yes, this looks quite nice - although I had some trouble in the beginning, because with the latest version of msegui, the rounded corners seemed to be gone, no longer functioning... Until I realied, that the radius of the corners had been shrunken as to be hardly discernable any more. That's why I explicitely set this value within the "FormResize" method (which is also called during initialization). (BTW, the additional new attributes (window options) of the "wo_transparentbackground<shape>" appear a bit overspecified. Their naming suggests they could be separated into a set of "<shape>" attributes and a single "wo_transparentbackground" one, producing the effect of the combined versions when both the pertinent "<shape>" and "wo_transparentbackground" attributes are in effect. I wonder if this could be achieved without too much hassle, otherwise it might be more programmer-friendly to separate the attributes and process them appropriately when they're evaluated. What's your opinion?) > I like your method Self.Window.RecreateWindow; (that I will deeply This was neccessary, as the new attributes "wo_inalldesktops" (whichI think should be better named "...on..", as one usually says that something's ON a desktop) and "wo_alwaysontop" cannot be changed on the fly, and neither does "wo_rounded". I DID poke around and searched quite some time for a way to overcome this until I came upon this method. At first, I was leery whether it would cause heavy flicker when used, as it seems to really destroy the currently displayed window and construct a new one in its place, but was pleased to find that no such effect is visible, on my machine at least. So I used it for all these attributes as this allows overcoming their otherwise "one shot" character. > studdy) Maybe it would be good to make the clock movable (with > click+hold on the clock-form). Something like this: Yes, this might be some icing on the cake that I didn't take care of yet - after all, you can always switch back to rectangular corners (that I coupled with the existence of a frame) and move the window, then switch back to rounded (which also will remove the frame and its weird look in combination with a frame). I'll test your move method and possibly incorporate it, although my window manager allows me shifting the window around also by just holding the "Alt" key together with the right mouse key to move the window. > . Language selection is OK too. It's just not really complete, I "constructed" some of the translations by gleaning details from existing ones of other projects. I hope they're not too much garbage... > I see in /MSEclock/newdialogs/ lot of dialogs-units, did you change > all those dialogs from original MSEsource? If yes, what is mainly > changed? These "newdialogs" are a partial continuation of my former attempt to extend all msegui dialogs to be application configurable, mainly to set the position, but also to change the appearance, e.g. color scheme, window attributes or such things. And, they all got extended with a method to make them directly executable (called "execute", of course). I'm just always VERY annoyed if some such thing stupendously uses to appear at a place where it is not expected, possibly - ususally - hiding some important detail, or it just looks amply unfitting to the rest of the application. > I will not eat all your other delicious code tonnight and keep some Errm - may I wish you "have a lot of fun"? Keep up the good work! -- (Weitergabe von Adressdaten, Telefonnummern u.ä. ohne Zustimmung nicht gestattet, ebenso Zusendung von Werbung oder ähnlichem) ----------------------------------------------------------- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, S. Schicktanz ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
