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julesd wrote:I mean like color themes changing the colors, of buttons Black with white fonts

Badly chosen example, since the colour of buttons can't be changed and you have to use image buttons instead.

julesd wrote:I know you can change the background of the form already. But being able to do this for the gadgets as well, we can create color themes for our form and gadgets.

You can already do this, using the form panel - only for gadgets that support it

Regenduft wrote:

julesd wrote:I mean like color themes changing the colors, of buttons Black with white fonts

Badly chosen example, since the colour of buttons can't be changed and you have to use image buttons instead.

Not strictly true, since it's always an option to write one's own custom gadgets.

We've created various GUI classes, based on the Canvas Gadget, to use in place of PB's gadgets. This gives us complete control over all GUI attributes, including colour, border styles, fonts, character underlining, cursor positioning, edit rules, themes, auto sizing, etc, etc.

This is done using only PB's standard cross-platform language features.

Here's a simple example of the technique: http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 12&t=57143

However one's own custom buttons will likely not be supported by the forms designer

rsts wrote:However one's own custom buttons will likely not be supported by the forms designer

That is making the assumption one actually uses the designer.

Kuron wrote:

rsts wrote:However one's own custom buttons will likely not be supported by the forms designer

That is making the assumption one actually uses the designer.

Exactly

Personally, I never use designers. The generated code tends to be simplistic and places too many restrictions on my programming style.

BorisTheOld wrote:We've created various GUI classes, based on the Canvas Gadget, to use in place of PB's gadgets. This gives us complete control over all GUI attributes, including colour, border styles, fonts, character underlining, cursor positioning, edit rules, themes, auto sizing, etc, etc.

This is done using only PB's standard cross-platform language features.

Here's a simple example of the technique: http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 12&t=57143

Very nice! Thanks for sharing! Sometimes it can be very beneficial to be misunderstood! (I was referring to the form designer in my original posting)

Kuron wrote:

rsts wrote:However one's own custom buttons will likely not be supported by the forms designer

That is making the assumption one actually uses the designer.

No, not "assumption".
The question to which Regenduft and rsts referred had explicitly referred to the form designer.

Regenduft wrote:Very nice! Thanks for sharing! Sometimes it can be very beneficial to be misunderstood! (I was referring to the form designer in my original posting)

You're welcome!

I was describing our solution to gadget limitations and suggesting, if somewhat obliquely, that perhaps the Designer could allow for custom gadgets. It should be quite easy to include a generic gadget that provides for all attributes and events, and have the Designer create appropriate code stubs that can be modified by the programmer. Perhaps it could even make use of user plug-ins for drawing the custom gadgets.

Beta 4 is out !

Cool, I will install it

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An Error has been detected in the IDE!

Error: Invalid memory access

File : C:\purebasic\svn\v5.30\Fr34k\PureBasicIDE\Macro.pb

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IDE build on 06/17/2014 [16:08] by Fred

Branch: v5.30 Revision: 1635
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The PureBasic5.30b4(x86) IDE Running On the Windows 7 Ultimate x64

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An Error has been detected in the IDE!

Error: Invalid memory access

File : C:\purebasic\svn\v5.30\Fr34k\PureBasicIDE\SourceParser.pb

Line : 1796



IDE build on 06/17/2014 [16:08] by Fred

Branch: v5.30 Revision: 1635
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The PureBasic5.30b4(x86) IDE Running On the Windows 2003 Server x32



Other Operating System Can't Run The Beta4 IDE

IDE can only run in /PORTABLE mode

in /PORTABLE mode Still Error