Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] IDE

[Sieghard <s_...@ar...>]

Hello Fred,

you wrote on Sun, 1 Oct 2023 20:12:27 +0000:

> I am busy to try your new dialogs.
> I try them for project ideU because it uses nearly all king of dialogs.

Don't hurry - DON'T, please!
The "newdialogs" STILL are work in progress, and as I wrote before, I've
not even yet tackled the "king of dialogs", "msefiledialog". I'm just
about "scratching my head" what to do to tame this queer beast.

> So I copied all the units of your newdialogs folder into the root
> directory of ideU project. I did not copy the customed dialog-units that
> uses variables shared with ideU.

Hmm - I don't quite get what the last sentence should tell...

> It is those units that are not copied:
> msestringenter.pas
> mseintegerenter.pas
> mseshortcutdialog.pas
> msefiledialogx.pas

Ah, I think I get it - you wanted to make sure your customized units are
used. This should be the case automatically when the ancillary units are
kept in a subordinate directory in the unit search path; that's how I did
it, and I didn't even notice that you had copies of the above mentioned
units in your source directory. Nonetheless, I got it to compile and run,
but indeed, I had to make a couple adjustments.

> But I get error at compilation:
> msedialog.pas(351,44) Error: (5000) Identifier not found "StatExt"

Upps, well, yes, that's a not-so-minor ommission on my part - I had added
a line "StatExt = ".sta';" in "kernel/msestatfile.pas", for use with the
extended "statfile" option "sfo_useexename", and possibly commented out
again - or, did I even upload the files, or just some patch information?

> And also now in ideU source:
> 
> projectoptionsform.pas(1717,30) Error: (5000) Identifier not found
> "colordialogstatname" --> Pointing to
> deletememorystatstream(colordialogstatname);  

Yes, this is s definition in the file "msecolordialog.pas" which was
completely unused throughout all of the mseide-msegui files, so I commented
it out. Indeed, I had to reenable it to compile your ideU, but I forgot to
mention - or neglected to do so, because I didn't expect you to immediately
try that out, too...

> I apologize if you have already given note about this but I did not find
> it in your previous mails.

No, I didn't, and I appreciate when you tell me about the problems you
encounter with your undertakings. That way, it should be easier and faster
to get it all working correctly. So, thank you for your information, and I
hope I could help you getting it all to run, as far as it has evolved.
(Mind you, remember, it is not finished yet, not before the file dialog
works!)

Success, and have a good time!

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen, S. Schicktanz
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