Form Designer 5.10

[LuCiFeR[SD]]

Depends on which you use, tho the general layout of Visual Studio is great for productivity. Other then the piles of crap Microsoft throws in with it. A miniscule and light weight version of Visual Studios form designer = win.

As you've probably realised, I do try to take the best of the Visual C# form designer, while trying to stick to the "pure" concept. There's no way I can make something as good as what the folks at Microsoft did, I'm only one guy and I'm not very skilled, but I'm doing my best!

and there is the key Polo, keep doing your best and I for one will be very happy

[luciano]

I'm afraid I cannot reproduce that? Must be hard to find out, but if you find a precise list of actions that makes you unable to select items that'd help a lot!

A recipe is:
create a statusbar;
add a progressbar to the status bar;
click on empty window (window properties are shown, ok);
click on progressbar (the element's properties are shown, ok);
release the left button, window properties are shown again, you cannot edit the progress bar element.

add a new element i.e. a new progressbar;
now you can select any of them and property panel works correctly until you click on the empty form again.

[luciano]

A suggestion for future releases (when there is time):

I don't know if there is a special character to add a tab in menu names
my workaround is adding "+chr(9)+" in the middle of the text

to get:


maybe you could add special character similarly to &, e.g. [] in text to insert a Tab

[Polo]

I'm afraid I cannot reproduce that? Must be hard to find out, but if you find a precise list of actions that makes you unable to select items that'd help a lot!

A recipe is:
create a statusbar;
add a progressbar to the status bar;
click on empty window (window properties are shown, ok);
click on progressbar (the element's properties are shown, ok);
release the left button, window properties are shown again, you cannot edit the progress bar element.

add a new element i.e. a new progressbar;
now you can select any of them and property panel works correctly until you click on the empty form again.

It works fine here, I might have fixed it, can't remember!

Shortcuts are on the list for menus, I'll add a separate property

[ts-soft]

Next Bugreport
Tested on Linux!
The keyboard-support is good, but after using left or up key, the gadget loses the focus! Right and down works as expected.

Greetings - Thomas

[Polo]

The keyboard-support is good, but after using left or up key, the gadget loses the focus! Right and down works as expected.

Can you try to reproduce it with a simple canvas example? Doesn't look like a bug in my code, as it's working on other platforms (plus the code for right/down/up/left is pretty much the same)

Menu shortcuts are here!

[ts-soft]

The problem with the keyboard is only on linux. I put a button in the designer and moving to left or up (with or without shift) works only
ones. After the first move, the focus is on the sidepanel and no more on the gadget (canvas).

[Polo]

The problem with the keyboard is only on linux. I put a button in the designer and moving to left or up (with or without shift) works only
ones. After the first move, the focus is on the sidepanel and no more on the gadget (canvas).

It's weird, I'll add a setactivegadget and see if it fixes it!

[Polo]

and also divide it up into sub menu's exactly like Visual Studio does (the more it feels like Visual Studio the more people will enjoy using it).

Added.

[Polo]

Also it would be a nice bonus if you could eradicate the scrollbars in the design view when the form isn't larger then the design view. That would free up space (no sense in having scrollbars that don't work). And have them shown only when the designed window exceeds either direction. Tho this isn't critical as it only free's up extra work space.

Done.

[Polo]

New UI layout as per Warmonger's suggestions:

[Polo]

Lastly, like I said before it seems like some of your loops are too tight. You wouldn't imagine a form designer to max out 2.4GHz single core just to resize or move a control.

It should be better now, please report on next version if it's still using too much CPU!
Thanks again for all the nice suggestions.

[morosh]

still no unicode, why?

[Polo]

still no unicode, why?

Completely forgot to check the option, sorry

[Polo]

Added columns support to ListIconGadget.
Items for each columns are separated by the "|" character in the items editor.