I'm looking at these issues now.




>>Ok, I'm working on the builder now.
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>>Can you embed the images and do the meta data scripts?
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>>>>Allow dynamically to change the look in design time, according to the properties selected.
>>>>Please read carefully what Craig Boyd presented at this link:
>>>>http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/PermaLink,guid,cbe94fe8-cf6b-4600-9a05-b23b0adff749.aspx
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>>I'm looking at this now.
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>>I'd like to go through and clean up some of the code a bit. I'd like to use the same
>>coding style in all methods. I have no peference, as long as they're all the same. So,
>>before you submit, please send me what you have and I'll make one more pass through
>>everything and send it back to you to submit.
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>>Thanks
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>>>>>>Allow dynamically to change the look in design time, according to the properties selected.
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>>>Please read carefully what Craig Boyd presented at this link:
>>>http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/PermaLink,guid,cbe94fe8-cf6b-4600-9a05-b23b0adff749.aspx
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>>>>>>Embed the default pictures to the VCX/
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>>>>As far as the images go, the issue I have is that the way we have it now, the paths to the
>>>>images are hardcoded into the class. The problem is that it prevents the user from putting the
>>>>images somewhere else wherever they want them.
>>>>
>>>>For example, when I create a project, I create a Classes folder and a seperate Media folder in
>>>>anothere location, seperate from the Classes folder, with a Graphics folder under it.
>>>>
>>>>With our method, we are forcing the user to have "Graphics\Thumbs" and "Graphics\Tracks" under
>>>>the classes folder. One idea to mitigate this is to crete a GraphicsPath property and set it
>>>>by default to "Graphics", then move all the default thumbs and tracks into it.
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>>>>Then the user could move graphics where they want and change the property. This seems a bit more
>>>>flexibile to me. What do you think?
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>>>We can embed our images in the VCX, storing the image binaries in the USER field of the table, of the VCX itself. This way, we wont need to release the images separately. When the class runs, it will automatically extract the images from the VCX, and we'll be able to use the pictureval property to store the images.
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>>>More info here:
>>>http://weblogs.foxite.com/bernardbout/archive/2007/02/18/3320.aspx
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>>>>>>Using GDI+, automatically create greyscale images, and also brighter images for the thumbs if
>>>>>>the user does not provide for Disables and active modes
>>>>I'm ok with this, but as I said before, I have no experience with GDI. Can you handle this part?
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>>>Ok, that's my part. I'll do it with direct API calls only, no need of any wrapper class for that.
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>>>>>>Create some memberdata Scripts to be fired when users change some properties values
>>>>Can you explain this more clearly? I don't understand.
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>>>For instance, when a user clicks on the "TickColor" property to change the color, automatically opening the "GETCOLOR()" window, and updating the property value. I can handle this too.
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>>>>One other thing I want to do is create a builder for it.
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>>>Can you work on this ?
>>>It would be nice if you could make it in a way that users can see how the control will look like when running.
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>>>>>>Wanna submit it to VFPX ?
>>>
>>>>Absolutley!!, as well as post it to the downloads section here on the UT
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>>>I'll work on this, and hope to send it to the VFPX admins, with what we have done so far.
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>Hi Kevin,
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>Please test this nw version, that contains all images from "Style 1" - the Windows default embedded in the VCX. See that the Folder "Style1" mo more exists.
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>http://weblogs.foxite.com/files/cesarchalom/slidebarx/SlideBarX.zip
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>There's a bug that I'd like you to check, in the "KeyPress" and "MouseWheel" events.
>When I press the arrows, I'm getting the big change. When I press "PageDown" I have the "Small Change", and sometimes an error.
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>Strange also, after I use the KeyPress events, the "FixedLocation" stops working.
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>I confess that I didn't even try to see what goes on there.. can you work on this, since it was you that handled this before ?