HMG IDE - Multiple controls select on form etc ...

FrankE · Post by **FrankE** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:50 am

Hi ... possibly 'Hi Roberto'

In years gone by I did extensive development using MS Visual Fox Pro.

One thing I am severely missing in HMG IDE is the ability to select and move groups of controls, which means that currently it comes down to a laborious exercize of selecting each control individually, then moving/adjusting/aligning, and finally deciding whether another layout might be more suitable - at which point the whole process starts all over again ... sometimes I've simply had to use a text editor to get the job done faster.

Don't get me wrong, I sure enjoy the whole HMG + HMG-IDE thing. It's just that getting things done fast/faster is crucial to cost effective development.

Apart from that I am a big HMG/HMG-IDE fan!

Cheers,
Frank E.

Roberto Lopez · Post by **Roberto Lopez** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:11 pm

FrankE wrote:Hi ... possibly 'Hi Roberto'

In years gone by I did extensive development using MS Visual Fox Pro.

One thing I am severely missing in HMG IDE is the ability to select and move groups of controls, which means that currently it comes down to a laborious exercize of selecting each control individually, then moving/adjusting/aligning, and finally deciding whether another layout might be more suitable - at which point the whole process starts all over again ... sometimes I've simply had to use a text editor to get the job done faster.

Don't get me wrong, I sure enjoy the whole HMG + HMG-IDE thing. It's just that getting things done fast/faster is crucial to cost effective development.

Apart from that I am a big HMG/HMG-IDE fan!

Cheers,
Frank E.

I've stopped all coding based on Windows API.

HMG 3.0.x and its IDE are in maintenance (bug fixing only).

HMG.4 (QT based) hopefully will have its own new open source IDE.

The first goal for this project will be to mimic the current IDE behavior and to be extended later.

Post by **Rathinagiri** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:50 pm

HMG.4 (QT based) hopefully will have its own new open source IDE.

The first goal for this project will be to mimic the current IDE behavior and to be extended later.

That's great Roberto.

Roberto Lopez · Post by **Roberto Lopez** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:29 pm

rathinagiri wrote:
HMG.4 (QT based) hopefully will have its own new open source IDE.

The first goal for this project will be to mimic the current IDE behavior and to be extended later.
That's great Roberto.

We'll be able to start when most important controls reach a reasonable degree of completion.

Anyway, we will must use plain QT for low level things, such as form editor.

Post by **esgici** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:25 pm

Roberto Lopez wrote: ...
Anyway, we will must use plain QT for low level things, such as form editor.

Wow

since this is possible (without programing in C) that QT is really big thing

Best regards

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Esgici

Czarny_Pijar · Post by **Czarny_Pijar** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:14 am

FrankE wrote: One thing I am severely missing in HMG IDE is the ability to select and move groups of controls, which means that currently it comes down to a laborious exercize of selecting each control individually, then moving/adjusting/aligning, and finally deciding whether another layout might be more suitable - at which point the whole process starts all over again ... sometimes I've simply had to use a text editor to get the job done faster.
Frank E.

Please check this topic http://hmgforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1563,
probably my freeware called fmg_tool_ver2.zip which you can find there, may be useful for you.

Roberto Lopez · Post by **Roberto Lopez** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 11:46 am

Czarny_Pijar wrote:
FrankE wrote: One thing I am severely missing in HMG IDE is the ability to select and move groups of controls, which means that currently it comes down to a laborious exercize of selecting each control individually, then moving/adjusting/aligning, and finally deciding whether another layout might be more suitable - at which point the whole process starts all over again ... sometimes I've simply had to use a text editor to get the job done faster.
Frank E.
Please check this topic http://hmgforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1563,
probably my freeware called fmg_tool_ver2.zip which you can find there, may be useful for you.

Very Nice!!!

Pablo César · Post by **Pablo César** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:12 pm

This is an old desire to believe most like to see running as in other IDEs.
There is need to implement the IDE, you can allow multiple selections with fine adjustment in the positions of the components.
Here is a good example (see attached file pack) of handling components, but the events of mouse HMG as RightButton are not available (at least in internal form) which makes it difficult to implement this same example in HMG.

Post by **bpd2000** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:24 pm

Pablo César wrote: But the events of mouse HMG as RightButton are not available (at least in internal form) which makes it difficult to implement this same example in HMG.

All our C guru can implement RightButton and for expert it not so big project

Pablo César · Post by **Pablo César** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:42 pm

bpd2000 wrote:All our C guru can implement RightButton and for expert it not so big project

I believe the real solution is based in internal variables which contains this can information, at leat I saw that in HMGS taht the variable _HMG_MouseState are declared in h_init and is updating in all mouse events (see C:\MiniGUI\SAMPLES\BASIC\Mouse_Coords\demo3.prg). I think is a structure conditions and probably there is a programmable solution.

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