Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] ANNOUNCE: The GUI Loft (beta 010620)

[Johan L. <jo...@ba...>]

Henning wrote:
>You could replace the 0/1 values with "no"/"yes" or
>"false"/"true" in the properties editor. Even if it doesn't
>correspond the resulting code exactly, it makes more sense in
>a visual environment IMO.

This is a maybe.

I'm not sure how far from Perl code I like the tool to go. Like I say in 
the User manual, you'll end up coding Win32::GUI Perl anyway, so perhaps 
it's best with a natural and transparent mapping between The GUI Loft and 
Win32::GUI code.

But it's definetely something I'll think more about.


>Also I keep forgetting to press return after changing a string
>value, hence losing my edits when I select a different property

This is also a maybe, although for more technical UI reasons :/

But it's on the list :)


>Tooltips would be nice, especially in the toolbox window.

Very much so, the ToolTip control is a _great_ (and I mean __great__) UI 
feature, but I don't think it is 100% implemented in Win32::GUI. Aldo, is 
that correct?

A working piece of code would help a lot if anyone has done it. And as soon 
as I can get it to work, support in The GUI Loft is the next thing.


>I just had an incident where the icons in the toolbox disappeared
>when I clicked on them. I cannot reproduce it, but it happened
>while clicking the buttons when I had my window in "test mode".

I _think_ this is a Win32::GUI thing, but I'm not sure. Anyone else who has 
used bitmap Buttons with any experience (good or bad) of this?


>A point for resizing the control in only one direction at a time
>would come in handy, and one point that would scale the control
>in all directions would, too. (i.e. center of the control's edges
>and in the middle of the control)

Check. But I'm not too fond of cluttering up the Design window with more dots.

Idea: Ctrl-drag a dot to "center" the fixed point.

Idea: Shift-drag a dot to force either horizontal or verical movement, 
whichever is done first.


>Oh yeah, "send to front"/"back"/"push one layer back"/"select
>control" type of  right click menu in the forms editor window
>would be nice, instead of having to move the mouse over to the
>main window and click the control I want to edit there.

That particular feature isn't implemented yet actually, the menu items are 
just placeholders/teasers :)

But a right-click menu with the edit commands, as well as individual 
select/deselect for controls below the mouse pointer is on the way.

In the source distro, in the Notes directory, there are a few files with 
future plans/ideas and stuff if you are interested.


>That's all I could think of for now!

Thanks! All comments are greatly appreciated!


/J

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