#60 ListView Checkbox support Please

[Glenn Chugg]

Using Gambas for a month now and enjoying it a LOT!!!

I was planning on making a bigger project than the ones I have already created with it since recently moving from Windows and VB6 to Linux and Gambas.

One of the hacks for VB6 was to enable check boxes to be used if wanted.

Instead of spending a long time working on learning to develop gambas controls by myself to achieve this feature, I decided to join up to the mailing list and see how all this open source stuff really works when it's a specific problem/feature requested by me (the end user).

If the feature is added and the changes are done with a screencast - I'll be happy to lend a hand to adding new features in the future, I have been a vb6 user for 11 Years and was a QuickBasic user for 3 years prior to that, dabbed in GBasic and was on AMOS and firstly C64 Basic when I was 9 years old - I am 27 now and lets just say, after spending a week looking at python, c#, java, ruby I had almost given up hope of enjoying developing tools in linux in the language I have the most experience in.

Basic for Desktop Tools/Applications is far from basic on modern processors - the RAD IDE design and click to edit events, plus the incredible string manipulation supported in these basic languages make it possible to create a complete application in about 1/4 the time it takes a C++ application to have the same features ready. For gambas I thank you for making and sharing it, and most of all - keeping it free for hobbyists like myself to use/improve without needing to mess about with costs and legalities.

Please no comments on using a Grid view with a Icon Checkbox or anything hack like, I really want this Product to be it's best, and keeping the code simple, if a work around is possible - then please instead of making every user do this to achieve a feature - make it into a Addin/built in function and keep gambas improving.

BTW - great job on the IDE - took me about 5 minutes to become familiar with the layout and apart from the above problem the command help (via f1) is all thats missing.

Thanks gambas team

ReturnOfNights aka Nightwolf81