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Here is the latest update (December 8, 2025) to My Bookmark Manager. Improvements are:

There is now a right click pop-up menu for the items in the Tree Gadget.

Deleting an item no longer causes the Tree Gadget to be refreshed, and lose the current position.

There is now a simple drag and ...

So, your question is, why not just add a corresponding drop event-type to d&d-enabled gadgets, like #PB_EventType_Drop ?

Firstly, the drag and drop functionality is meant to be system-wide, meaning that any d&d-enabled element should be able to have its content dragged from it, or allow external ...

it's a window event to say that a gadget got a drop event.


That sort of clears it up. Using this terminology what I was wondering is why #PB_Event_GadgetDrop is a Windows event, and not a Gadget event?

I was expecting a sort of "symmetry" where all the drag and drop events would be at the same ...

I am working on using drag and drop to move a bookmark into a different folder in My Bookmark Manager . I am making progress, but while examining the DragDrop.pb example, I wonder something.

Is there a specific reason (that I don't yet have understanding for) about how the #PB_Event_GadgetDrop ...

Writing the windows and gadgets by hand looks pretty formidable to me.


From one newish PureBasic user to another, I have been using the built-in Form Designer with success and think it is better than having to figure out the position and size of on screen stuff by hand. The way the Form ...

I am an Affinity (an Adobe alternative) user, and they recently shut down the forums, and directed everybody to start using their new official discord server. It's a mess.

I love discord and think it's great for many types of content and communities, but as a substitute for a support forum, the ...

Here is the latest source to My Bookmark Manager. Improvements are:

The toolbar icons are now included in the executable and do not need to be in separate files. To do this, I had to copy the lines generated by the Form Designer for the Toolbar into my own code because I don't think the Form ...

boddhi wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:55 pm there are include methodx

Have used the CatchImage with success.

Thank you for the positive feedback. I have lost track of the countless hours reading and re-reading the manual, lurking on and searching the forums, and slowly understanding the samples. Hoping to get it right, (or just good enough.)

Will add the CatchImage method (which looks very clever, and I ...

This is my first utility in PureBasic written from scratch with multiple windows (my previous experiments have been basic ). It was an exercise in learning more about PureBasic and the IDE. It's a simple (no drag and drop) bookmark manager that is specifically designed to import and work with ...

Fred wrote: Wed Nov 12, 2025 9:25 am This is how UI works

Understood!

Okay, I confess I didn't try to run @infratec example, and if I had, what is does might have been more obvious, (and hopefully I would have examined the code more carefully).

For now I am happy with this trick.

While WindowEvent() : Wend

No, I have not used threads before, and I come from using ...

;more code

Procedure on_takeslongtime(*Dummy)

Protected.i index


PostEvent(#CustomEvent_ShowGadgetText, 0, 0, #PB_EventType_Change, @"Please wait while this takes a long time...")

For index = 0 To 100000
PostEvent(#CustomEvent_ShowGadgetInteger, 0, 1, #PB_EventType_Change, index ...

All UI stuff should be handled in the (one and only) Event loop.
If you want to do stuff from a procedure you should use PostEvent().
If your procedure takes longer ... this procedure should be an own thread to avoid blocking of the program,
which is a bad user experience.


I have no reason to ...

Easy answer: You can add this in the loop.
While WindowEvent() : Wend
Important Note:
You remove events from the System-Message-Loop. So any action on your app are lost.


Thank you for the tips and link. Changing the lines to these works exactly as I hoped.

Procedure on_takeslongtime ...