Re: [Gambas-devel] how to create an mdi form?

[Rob <sou...@ku...>]

On Friday 30 May 2003 02:40, andrea wrote:
> Please tell me how to create an mdi form, i'm a beginner..but i know VB
> and i want to create a database environment like access

In the tool palette of gambas 0.57 at the bottom you'll find a "Workspace=
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component.  Drop it on your form, size it appropriately, and then put oth=
er=20
controls inside it.  Voila, instant MDI app.  Better yet, if you already =
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controls on a form, you can cut and paste them into the Workspace control=
 and=20
it will all Just Work(tm), at least as far as I can tell.

However, if you're trying to build an Access lookalike you should take a =
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at the gambas database manager app, whose source comes with gambas.  It's=
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already an MDI app written in Gambas and is about a third of the way towa=
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where you want to get.  (Actually, to really duplicate Access' functional=
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you'd have to integrate most of the Gambas IDE's features as well as desi=
gn a=20
reporting component.  Not that I think it's impossible at all; I was just=
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posting about such a possibility on another mailing list where someone wa=
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looking for long term Access alternatives.)

By the way, if you're not on the gambas-user list, please join.  Gambas-d=
evel=20
is meant for discussion of changes to Gambas itself, not programming in=20
Gambas.  Gambas-user is for discussion of programming in Gambas and if we=
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talk about this any more we should probably do it there.

Rob