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[TimStone]

I am trying to convert .RC dialogs to .PRG windows. I have always used resources in the past, and have very nicely designed, but complex, screens.

I am converting because 1) I want to use a Ribbon Bar that only seems to work with the @ x,y coordinates and is not friendly to resource dialogs, and 2) All examples now seem to be using @ x,y formats.

I have been looking for a way to calculate the correct x,y values based on the settings in the .rc. file. I have not been able to figure out any consistent formula that works.

There is a sample RC2PRG.prg program, and it does a nice job, but the coordinates are not even close to being accurate. The controls all overlap significantly. I don't know if anyone has used this before and perhaps has a multiplier or correction to adapt to today's monitors.

Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated. I asked about calculating the @ x,y coordinates in the past with no success. I hope this time will be different.

[Compuin]

+1

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

I am trying to convert .RC dialogs to .PRG windows. I have always used resources in the past, and have very nicely designed, but complex, screens.

I am converting because 1) I want to use a Ribbon Bar that only seems to work with the @ x,y coordinates and is not friendly to resource dialogs,

If this is the reason please stop. You can use ribbon bar with resources too. There is no problem in doing that.

EMG

[TimStone]

How ? I tried and it failed ? I asked for a sample here and no one answered.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

You only need to create the ribbon bar in the ON INIT clause of the ACTIVATE DIALOG command.

EMG

[TimStone]

Right now I have a CLASS, and a METHOD is used to provide a full edit capability. I use a button bar, and all of the code is in that method.

Are you saying to extract the button bar code, and create a FUNCTION or METHOD to create a Ribbon Bar for the ON INIT ?

I sure wish this had documentation, or Samples ... but of course we don't have any.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Please search the FWH dir for *.prg files containing the word RIBBON and you will find many samples.

Anyway, the technique is very simple:

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ACTIVATE DIALOG oDlg;
         ON INIT CREATERIBBONBAR( oDlg );
         CENTER

Then, in the function CREATERIBBONBAR():

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STATIC FUNCTION CREATERIBBONBAR( oDlg )

    LOCAL oRib, oGrp

    DEFINE RIBBONBAR oRib OF oDlg …

    oDlg:oBar = oRib

    ADD GROUP oGrp RIBBONBAR oRib ...

    @ 2, 2 ADD BUTTON GROUP oGrp …

    ...

    RETURN NIL

EMG

[TimStone]

Thank you.

I first worked with some stand alone samples and they were ok. However, when I went in to do it within the program, I got very strange results. I will spend some more time, but I think the problem may be that I am addressing a Method within a class that displays a complex DIALOG, and then trying to overlay it with a button bar using @ x,y commands. I used to call button bars the way you suggest, so I am familiar with the concept. ( Now my button bars are embedded within the full method, ever since Button Bars were modified to use within a resource with a tbar object ).

I also noted that this approach slows down the loading of the screen significantly ...

Tim