Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-21 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Tue, 20 Sep 2022 02:17:27 +: > > Please don't publicize this URL too much. > Ok, I understand and apologize... Never mind, it was just meant as a friendly reminder. These days, data drain away so easily everywhere... -- (Weitergabe von Adressdaten,

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-19 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello Sieghard. >> project. http://xxx.xx/xxx/mse/ > Please don't publicize this URL too much. Ok, I understand and apologize... Fre;D ___ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-19 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:40:04 +: > >>> The updated msewidget.pas is included in root directory source so ... > Indeed it works (but I have to copy updated msewidget.pas > into /MSEclock/) Nice work you have done! Is this really neccessary, or don't you just

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-19 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello Sieghard. I did try to compile MSEclock for Windows (using emulator wine for Linux). It fails to compile for mo4stock.pas. The trick is to add those 2 units in uses section: USES msefileutils, msesysintf, ... It fails to compile later with error in UNIT fontlist.pas, this because only

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-19 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello Sieghard. >>> The updated msewidget.pas is included in root directory source so >> Not really but you will have a warning "onmouseevent not assigned for >> panel", just click "Cancel" and compile it. > I included extra assignments in "Zeitstart" to take care of that. This > does not need

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-18 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:50:46 +: [MSEclock] > > Upps, not so fast - I do not want to totally loose control over this ... > Of corse! ( it always work when I say "I will do for you" ;-) ) In fact, it's only because there were - still are - so many

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello Sieghard. >> MSEclock is a good >> demo to show msegui feature and explain how it works. > Upps, not so fast - I do not want to totally loose control over this (still my?) creation! Of corse! ( it always work when I say "I will do for you" ;-) ) >> The updated msewidget.pas is

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:19:33 +: [MSEclock] > I added templates of frames in your demo, to show how to use it, also > added moving window with simple click-hold + move. MSEclock is a good > demo to show msegui feature and explain how it works. Upps, not so

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Fred van Stappen
About difference in contributions for Lazarus vs MSEgui. Maybe a explanation is that Lazarus ***needs*** more contributors. There are more than 2.2 k (> 2200 !) issues not resolved! https://gitlab.com/groups/freepascal.org/lazarus/-/issues MSEgui has less than 3 ...

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Fred van Stappen
>>> CAN msegui still claim any popularity? >> Difficult to say. > And how many contributors are there still? You, Roland for demos and me ;-) ! I agree no pub is done and only few people still use mailing list. In the issues of mseide-msegui GitHub there are still movements.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Fred van Stappen
di 17 septembre 2022 16:01 À : mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net Cc : Sieghard Objet : Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form. Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:04:55 +: > >> So I did make public onmouseevent for mseSimpleWidget: ... > >>

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:04:55 +: > >> So I did make public onmouseevent for mseSimpleWidget: ... > >> And recompiled ideU with it. > > > So it's useable with ideU only, not with the regular mseide? > > No, msewidgets.pas is part of msegui code. Yes, I

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Fred van Stappen
Re,..., hallo Sieghard. >(BTW, the additional new attributes (window options) > ... > What's your opinion?) I totally agree with you. I was focused on the result and have done it the "fast-easy-no-thesaurus" way for window options. Also the names used are not "Pure-English" and, like you

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Fred van Stappen
Re... hello Sieghard. >> ..., now the rounded clock can move. > If you really need that? As written otherwise, on my system, under my > window manager, it's sufficient to hold the "Alt" key in conjunction > with the right mouse bitton to move the window, even if it has no frame. Ha, ok, indeed,

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Fred van Stappen
>> BTW, the MSEclock on my web site isn't "finished" in any way. > Yes, of course, but imho, it will be a nice demo to show how shaped-form, > multi-languages, ... work. I added templates of frames in your demo, to show how to use it, also added moving window with simple click-hold + move.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-17 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hallo Sieghard. >> So I did make public onmouseevent for mseSimpleWidget: >> In msewidgets.pas, added in parent class of simplewidget this: ... >> And recompiled ideU with it. > So it's useable with ideU only, not with the regular mseide? No, msewidgets.pas is part of msegui code. But to make

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-16 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Thu, 15 Sep 2022 21:36:47 +: > So I did make public onmouseevent for mseSimpleWidget: > In msewidgets.pas, added in parent class of simplewidget this: ... > And recompiled ideU with it. So it's useable with ideU only, not with the regular mseide? > Now

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-15 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:52:52 +: > 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

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-15 Thread Fred van Stappen
15 septembre 2022 22:34 À : General list for MSEide+MSEgui Objet : Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form. Re-hello Seighard. About the code that I have given to move the window, it will not work because the background is a panel not the form. Strange but the method

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-15 Thread Fred van Stappen
is the good way to do it? I would like to have onmouseevent() for mse-groupbox (and other widgets too). Thanks. Fre;D De : Fred van Stappen Envoyé : jeudi 15 septembre 2022 21:52 À : General list for MSEide+MSEgui Objet : RE: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-15 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello Sieghard. I will do it step by step. 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, Underline,

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-15 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:23:48 +: > I hope you had a nice summer. Thanks, t'was tolerable... Well, in fact, the wheather hereabouts was extraordinarily fair and sunny, and it still is, even though some rain is coming down now - but this is eagerly awaited by

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-14 Thread Fred van Stappen
Re-hello Sieghard. OK, I found your site ,-) http://schs.de/download/mse/ I jump into it tomorrow. Write you later. Fre;D De : Fred van Stappen Envoyé : mercredi 14 septembre 2022 16:23 À : General list for MSEide+MSEgui Objet : Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-14 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello Sieghard! I hope you had a nice summer. I have found a (old) laptop and have installed all needed (Linux, fpc, msegui, etc). So I am very excited to test all your last work. But, sadly, I do not remember the name of your site for download the files. (It was noted in my lovely ThinkPad

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-09-01 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, this is a follow up on my last message from Wed, 24 Aug 2022 23:50:24. Meanwhile, I succeeded in building a working version of the two units "formscanner.pas" and "mo4stock.pas" that can really use stock items like the latter's name promises. Of course, the main change

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-08-24 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:58:44 +: > How are you? Well, alive and working... Ok, I'm rather well for current circumstances, but some more busy with customer activities than I'd expected, so there's not a whole lot of overtime for other things. > Thanks for

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-08-24 Thread Fred van Stappen
: Sieghard Objet : Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form. Hallo Fred van Stappen, are you still here? (And what about computer work, and your mishap?) I did "a bit" of fiddling with translation functions, the gettext stuff and a little pertaining to dialogs. Main thi

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-08-24 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, are you still here? (And what about computer work, and your mishap?) I did "a bit" of fiddling with translation functions, the gettext stuff and a little pertaining to dialogs. Main things are, I reworked the mo4stock unit to be able to use a "stock" set of predefined

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-07-09 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Fri, 8 Jul 2022 20:36:12 +: > I am without my lapop for the summer, so not possible for me to test > your feature at the moment. That's bad, especially as it was stolen, as you write in another message. > But as soon that I get it back and find some

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-07-08 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:05:59 +: Even thiugh that's aome time since, I'm only now able to give some feedback. > For example myform.optionswindow := [wo_ellipse] will give a form > with ellipse shape, myform.optionswindow := [wo_roundrect] will give > a form

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-06-30 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:27:33 +: > Super, I will jump into it (and "getchildren") the end of this > week-end. > > Write you later. Now, did you succeed? At least, you did add a couple new features. One of them (the "on all desktops") might be of use for

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-06-15 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello Sieghard. > The "getchildren" functions of those component classes needed for your purpose. OK, thanks, I will explore with this. > (BTW, there are some revised items on my web site for you.) Super, I will jump into it (and "getchildren") the end of this week-end. Write you later.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-06-15 Thread Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk
Hallo Fred van Stappen, vous ecrit au Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:05:59 +: > MSEgui has different "custom shapes of form". Nice. > Now I want to have a form-shape that only shows the components in the > form and set the background as transparent. > > To do this, I need to get a list of all the

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-06-15 Thread Fred van Stappen
[Edited previous post] Hello. MSEgui has different "custom shapes of form". For example myform.optionswindow := [wo_ellipse] will give a form with ellipse shape, myform.optionswindow := [wo_roundrect] will give a form with rounded rectangle shape. Now I want to have a form-shape that only

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] Transparent background of form.

2022-06-15 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello. MSEgui have different "custom shapes of form". For example myform.optionswindow := [wo_ellipse] will give a form with ellipse shape, myform.optionswindow := [wo_roundrect] will give a form with rounded rectangle shape. Now I want to have a form-shape that only shows the components in