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Hello everyone. I was playing around with the CamStudio screen recorder, and thought that I'd put together a quick guide to the new Form Designer. It's far from comprehensive, but through a simple working example, it outlines the basic concepts of how the designer-generated code works in relation to the required events file. Here's the link:

The PureBasic 5.0 Form Designer - A Quick Tutorial (available in HD)

Please feel free to comment, either here or on YouTube. Hope it'll be useful.


PS: There's also an updated video tutorial here:

> PureBasic Form Designer Tutorial 2022

Wow it's very good and shows well how to use the designer, thanks!
The issue with empty image gadget in the code generation is fixed for next version I think

Nice to watch !

About the Form use, you should organize your files like this:

- have one .pbf per form, as you have. No main event loop inside (or you can only create one form !)
- have one event file, as you have (or store the event in the main file for the small programs)
- have one main file, with the main event loop in it, calling the 'sub' event loop of each forms.

Excellent work.

....I like the music too!

Thank you everyone for your kind comments.

Polo wrote:Wow it's very good and shows well how to use the designer, thanks!

Fred wrote:Nice to watch !

Hello Fred and Polo. To get these great compliments from the top guys of PureBasic and the Form Designer really makes my day! I thank you sincerely.

Fred wrote:About the Form use, you should organize your files like this:

- have one .pbf per form, as you have. No main event loop inside (or you can only create one form !)
- have one event file, as you have (or store the event in the main file for the small programs)
- have one main file, with the main event loop in it, calling the 'sub' event loop of each forms.

Since I usually code manually, I didn't see the third point. So, the best model would be to pair all the form files (*.pbf) with their corresponding events files (*.pb), and code a separate main file (*.pb) to handle them all; very clean and modular.

Thank you.

TI-994A wrote:So, the best model would be to pair all the form files (*.pbf) with their corresponding events files (*.pb), and code a separate main file (*.pb) to handle them all; very clean and modular.

I think you're the one who explained it best!

Excellent video tutorial TI-994A.

Have to say I never thought of using the files in this way - I normaly just cut and paste code into my own programs, but doing it this way would make editing much cleaner.

Thanks

Nice one!

May I ask which recording software and tools you used for this video?

Hello everyone. I've compiled an updated video tutorial on the Form Designer.

PureBasic Form Designer Tutorial 2022

As always, please feel free to comment, either here or on YouTube.

Thank you TI-994A for your video tutorial which I worked through, it helped a lot. I'll go through it some more times and looking forward to advancing in PureBasic.