[PB 6.20 beta 2] EditorGadget no longer centres text

[BarryG]

Nobody read my post? What's wrong with using a centered TextGadget to show the text?

[marcoagpinto]

Nobody read my post? What's wrong with using a centered TextGadget to show the text?

Ahhhhh... sorry... I have used your suggestion:

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  t$=""+#LF$
  t$+"Coded/Compiled using PureBasic "+current_version_purebasic$+" — "+current_release_date_purebasic$+#LF$
  t$+Chr(34)+"Feel the ..Pure.. Power"+Chr(34)+#LF$+#LF$
  t$+"© 1998–"+FormatDate("%yyyy", #PB_Compiler_Date)+" Fantaisie Software."+#LF$
  t$+"www.purebasic.com"
    TextGadget(#WEBGADGET_WINDOW_ABOUT,x,y,ImageWidth(#GLOBAL_IMAGE_ABOUT_PTG_PB_LOGO)-ImageWidth(#GLOBAL_IMAGE_ABOUT_PTG_PB_LOGO_Z)-10,ImageHeight(#GLOBAL_IMAGE_ABOUT_PTG_PB_LOGO_Z),t$,#PB_Text_Border|#PB_Text_Center)
    SetGadgetColor(#WEBGADGET_WINDOW_ABOUT,#PB_Gadget_BackColor,#White)

Thanks!

[BarryG]

Just use the right tool for the job, was my point. You're showing non-editable plain text, so an EditorGadget makes no sense, and neither does a WebGadget because you're not showing HTML. The TextGadget does literally what you wanted, so... The KISS principle.

[Randy Walker]

Just use the right tool for the job, was my point. You're showing non-editable plain text, so an EditorGadget makes no sense, ...

Makes perfect sense if you do not want to block the user from copying text. Personally I hate when they do that, especially places like the About window. Just because they are allowed to access/modify the text does not necessarily mean they can make permanent changes unless you design it that way.

[BarryG]

Anyone can copy any text they can see anyway. Heard of Microsoft PowerToys? It literally provides a tool for users to copy any text on the desktop. You can't stop them. Link -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... -extractor

[Randy Walker]

No, can't say I ever heard of Microsoft PowerToys per say, but then I tend to stay away from Windows OS tweakers, so I don''t create problems as I did once long ago.

[Randy Walker]

Now that I followed your link on the text capture thing, I see it is supposed to be native to Windows but I tried (default: ⊞ Win+Shift+T but nothing happened.

[BarryG]

It's not native. You need to install PowerToys -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

[infratec]

Just use the right tool for the job, was my point. You're showing non-editable plain text, so an EditorGadget makes no sense, and neither does a WebGadget because you're not showing HTML. The TextGadget does literally what you wanted, so... The KISS principle.

Please show me how you can show a http link inside of a TextGadget().

Yes, you have to use the right tools and in this case, I, personally, would like also to present a link to the url.
So a WebGadget makes sense for me. (Better user experience)

[BarryG]

Please show me how you can show a http link inside of a TextGadget()

You can't. But Marco wasn't doing that in his original code that he posted - he showed an URL in the EditorGadget, yes; but he wasn't making it clickable (or didn't show the code that did it). I can only go by what's posted.

[Edit] I downloaded Marco's app to check, and yes, the PureBasic URL is not clickable, so a TextGadget would work fine for his needs.

[infratec]

Yes ... not a good user experience

Like in the original 'About' of the PB IDE.
Fred should change this if he want more clicks to his page.

[Shardik]

Please show me how you can show a http link inside of a TextGadget()

You can't.

That's incorrect. It's possible (though complicated) and mback2k had posted this example in the German forum in 2008. I have just tested it and it's still working in Windows 10 22H2 x64 in PB 5.46 x86 and x64 in both ASCII and Unicode mode. In PB 5.73, 6.04 and 6.12 parts of the displayed text are missing but the HyperText links are still working. Unfortunately I currently don't have the time to adapt mback2k's code to the newer PB versions.

However, in oder to try mback2k's example you have to change 2 lines:

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        Words$ + (" " + StringField(Text$, Index, " "))

  The outermost round bracket pair has to be removed:

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        Words$ + " " + StringField(Text$, Index, " ")

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      ElseIf Not Search$ And Line = Index

  has to be changed to

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      ElseIf Search$ = "" And Line = Index

[infratec]

The code in the german forum uses Windows API stuff.

The program, as I know, is platform independent.