[Gambas-user] Feature request: Make 'Pointer' a true integer type
Hello again! It'd be very handy if 'Pointer' was considered by the interpreter as an integer data type like 'Byte', 'Short', 'Integer' and 'Long'. That way one could use any integer function indiscriminately on a Pointer as well, rather than converting it to 'Long' (using 'CLong' function) every time it's an argument for an integer function. That is specially relevant when interfacing with external C libraries, where to make portable Gambas programs one need to treat the C data type 'long' as the Gambas data type 'Pointer'. This means that 'Pointer' isn't meaningful only in pointer contexts but also in ordinary integer contexts. What do you think about this proposed change? Is there any way in which it can be harmful to existing code or interpreter's functionality? Thanks in advance. Ps: In order to make portable Gambas programs which interface with external C libraries, one needs to follow the correct equivalence between C and Gambas integer data types, which is given by the table: [C] [Gambas] charByte short Short int Integer longPointer void * Pointer long long Long However, the Gambas Wiki page [1], besides having an incomplete table which does not address 'char', 'short' and 'long long', says that the equivalent of C's 'long' is Gambas' 'Long', what is only true on some 64-bit architectures. Footnotes: [1] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/extern -- ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU; `-'(. .)`-' GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels; \_/ All software must be free as in freedom; signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Downgraded to Gambas 3.5.2 with Ubuntu LTS 14:04
El 27/04/14 02:13, Ru Vuott escribió: Hello, two friends of the forum www.gambas-it.org have asked me to post this problem here in the Mailing List. They had updated and used normally the version 3.5.3 of Gambas. Well, not long ago they have updated their Ubuntu LTS distro at new 14:04 version. But, when they installed Gambas again, they have been downgraded to the previous Gambas version: 3.5.2 ! Obviously, They'ld like to obtain again the newest version of Gambas: 3.5.3 What can they do? Regards vuott Hi Vuott To answer this question, one must first know which installation method has been followed. Either do they used nemh repository or official ones in the distribution? I think it's a matter of updating their repositories. Regards -- Jesus Guardon -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] MaskBox.Mask
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Patrik Karlsson wrote: Hi, today I am using TextBox_Change event to reject | characters. Public Sub txtName_Change() If String.InStr(Last.Text, |) 0 Then Last.Text = Replace(Last.Text, |, ) Endif End I guess MaskBox can do this much simplier, but how, what Mask? No, MaskBox is there to force formatted input. But the Mask property is way weaker than regular expressions. The main point is that you can only describe fixed-length strings (plus/minus the finite number of #/9 fields in your Mask). So wherever you want to forbid |, you would write [^|] but that also consumes any character but |. So you cannot accept arbitrary strings but only strings of a length equal to the times you forbid the | character. Your initial approach was much better but one thing: if you use InStr() each time the TextBox changes, you will scan the whole contents each time they change but you only want to capture inputs, right? If you tell your user not to use Ctrl-V or stuff, you can do: Public Sub txtName_KeyPress() If Key.Text = | Then Stop Event End Regards, Tobi -- There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever! -- Mr. Monk -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] TreeView: Change parent key
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks! I am running Gambas 3.5.2 now, but perhaps I'll be able to pull the development version and try it out. Another feature request that I think would have been extremely great would be something like a .RichTextInsert() method for the TextEdit control. This way it would be very easy to insert HTML objects like tables, hyperlinks and so on at the cursor's current position. I may ask to much here now, but you don't get without asking :) I know that the QT TextEdit has methods for handling tables. Getting some basic table functionality like that in Gambas' TextEdit would be awesome, e.g. inserting/deleting tables, rows and columns, split and merging cells. I believe this is already built into QT, no? Best Regards Erik Den 27. april 2014 09:13, skrev gambas-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net: Message: 2 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 16:32:37 +0200 From: Beno?t Minisini gam...@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] TreeView: Change parent key To: mailing list for gambas users gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 535bc385.3020...@users.sourceforge.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Le 23/04/2014 23:13, J?rn Erik M?rne a ?crit : Hi! Is there a way with the TreeView component to change an item's parent key? Now, I have to clear out all elements, and reload them each time I want to move an item to another parent, and this also resets the current opened/closed status of each item, which clutters the users's experience a bit. Perhaps there's a good way I haven't thought of? Regards, Erik I added a Reparent() method to the TreeView items in revision #6250. Tell me if it works for you. I now leave and will come back from holidays next week, so I won't be able to answer before. Regards, -- Beno?t Minisini -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTXRh/AAoJEADmWD07BL0OhIcIAMNur2VrX1KkkcbavF2GHvS0 Q2O8ZqClkRPbSSLrTQEEg6+EHjrKvNDvdDucsWLQRr4E516pgy/aE5uYGBCVEOcE y/tBHn464+IZgB/KJ1CmnMJYw767v5VlGsvBSyodIgjcKBeUYSTw7agWK3WMQPb2 iEFzD4qOWkV/IGjdXx6GtAugpVuF7bbp5kFaSCiPJK0ldII0CRrk6kD8bSx4JH2P WLK0SHYLbfhiwbnNpmPONTZNTXWlflr2n6ixyEHNWPJwKiVDidO+A4Xjw/DdkaHa WtyVm31AdAgL+aUUwGUPrNx0F6OplsEFX/jGbIvia57a7JY6oHD9dmtXsfbuE5M= =/vnQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Downgraded to Gambas 3.5.2 with Ubuntu LTS 14:04
op 27-04-14 13:16, Ian Haywood schreef: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Jesus ea7...@ea7dfh.com wrote: El 27/04/14 02:13, Ru Vuott escribió: Hello, two friends of the forum www.gambas-it.org have asked me to post this problem here in the Mailing List. They had updated and used normally the version 3.5.3 of Gambas. Well, not long ago they have updated their Ubuntu LTS distro at new 14:04 version. But, when they installed Gambas again, they have been downgraded to the previous Gambas version: 3.5.2 ! Obviously, They'ld like to obtain again the newest version of Gambas: 3.5.3 What can they do? sounds like they had a PPA configured but lost it when they reinstalled Ubuntu. Not sure where 3.5.2 came from: sadly ubuntu's stock version is still 3.1.1 from over two years ago. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next ubuntu version. They need to reinstall from kendek's PPA Ian Well, I didn't notice it till now, but I got 3.5.2 to in Ubuntu 14.04 (clean install) , and I installed Gambas from ppa http://ppa.lauchpad.net/nemh/gambas3/ubuntu trusty main Johny Provoost -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Downgraded to Gambas 3.5.2 with Ubuntu LTS 14:04
Hello, thanks for contributions. One of them said he solved by cleaning version 3.5.2, then: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/gambas3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gambas3 regards vuott Dom 27/4/14, Johny Provoost johny.provo...@skynet.be ha scritto: Oggetto: Re: [Gambas-user] Downgraded to Gambas 3.5.2 with Ubuntu LTS 14:04 A: gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net Data: Domenica 27 Aprile 2014, 19:40 op 27-04-14 13:16, Ian Haywood schreef: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Jesus ea7...@ea7dfh.com wrote: El 27/04/14 02:13, Ru Vuott escribió: Hello, two friends of the forum www.gambas-it.org have asked me to post this problem here in the Mailing List. They had updated and used normally the version 3.5.3 of Gambas. Well, not long ago they have updated their Ubuntu LTS distro at new 14:04 version. But, when they installed Gambas again, they have been downgraded to the previous Gambas version: 3.5.2 ! Obviously, They'ld like to obtain again the newest version of Gambas: 3.5.3 What can they do? sounds like they had a PPA configured but lost it when they reinstalled Ubuntu. Not sure where 3.5.2 came from: sadly ubuntu's stock version is still 3.1.1 from over two years ago. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next ubuntu version. They need to reinstall from kendek's PPA Ian Well, I didn't notice it till now, but I got 3.5.2 to in Ubuntu 14.04 (clean install) , and I installed Gambas from ppa http://ppa.lauchpad.net/nemh/gambas3/ubuntu trusty main Johny Provoost -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
Re: [Gambas-user] Downgraded to Gambas 3.5.2 with Ubuntu LTS 14:04
If I may butt in for a second. That is exactly what I had to do when my Ubuntu updated to 12.04. When I tried to check for updates the Update Manager told me that Gambas was unauthorized and refused to install it or upgrade it. I ran the commands you mention and upgraded myself to Gambas version 3.5.3. I suspect that where I had originally gotten version 3.5.2 was NOT the latest PPA. There was no reason to uninstall the old version of Gambas. The latest version seemed to install right over the old one. Bill Ru Vuott wrote, On 04/27/2014 17:37: Hello, thanks for contributions. One of them said he solved by cleaning version 3.5.2, then: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/gambas3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gambas3 regards vuott Dom 27/4/14, Johny Provoost [1]johny.provo...@skynet.be ha scritto: Oggetto: Re: [Gambas-user] Downgraded to Gambas 3.5.2 with Ubuntu LTS 14:04 A: [2]gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net Data: Domenica 27 Aprile 2014, 19:40 op 27-04-14 13:16, Ian Haywood schreef: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Jesus [3]ea7...@ea7dfh.com wrote: El 27/04/14 02:13, Ru Vuott escribió: Hello, two friends of the forum [4]www.gambas-it.org have asked me to post this problem here in the Mailing List. They had updated and used normally the version 3.5.3 of Gambas. Well, not long ago they have updated their Ubuntu LTS distro at new 14:04 version. But, when they installed Gambas again, they have been downgraded to the previous Gambas version: 3.5.2 ! Obviously, They'ld like to obtain again the newest version of Gambas: 3.5.3 What can they do? sounds like they had a PPA configured but lost it when they reinstalled Ubuntu. Not sure where 3.5.2 came from: sadly ubuntu's stock version is still 3.1.1 from over two years ago. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next ubuntu version. They need to reinstall from kendek's PPA Ian Well, I didn't notice it till now, but I got 3.5.2 to in Ubuntu 14.04 (clean install) , and I installed Gambas from ppa [5]http://ppa.lauchpad.net/nemh/gambas3/ubuntu trusty main Johny Provoost -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform [6]http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list [7]Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net [8]https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform [9]http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list [10]Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net [11]https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user References 1. mailto:johny.provo...@skynet.be 2. mailto:gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net 3. mailto:ea7...@ea7dfh.com 4. http://www.gambas-it.org/ 5. http://ppa.lauchpad.net/nemh/gambas3/ubuntu 6. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform 7. mailto:Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net 8. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user 9. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform 10. mailto:Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net 11. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform ___ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
