XBLite Graphical Design Environment

[Guy Lonné]

10/11/2006

Hi xblite list,

Here is an "unstable" release of XBLite GDE (Version 0.92z):
http://forums.xbasicworld.com/forum11/86-3.html.

If you still want the beta release of XBLite GDE, have a look at:
http://forums.xbasicworld.com/forum11/86-1.html.

Here's a summary, which is more or less the same as the one
you can find at the above link.

Some features:
- WYSIWYG direct manipulation of controls.
You can directly move and resize controls in the Preview Window. To
use this feature, activate your preview window (make sure to add some
controls first, try a button..), then press the CTRL key while floating
the mouse over any of the controls. You should see the control change
into a gray box that you can then drag around the window and (if done
carefully) resize by grabbing on to the edges of the box. The feature
is still a bit quirky and takes some getting used to, but it does work
as advertised.

A tip on resizing controls with the WYSIWYG: Press CTRL while outside
of the control and the "creep" up to the edge of it slowly until you
catch the edge and see the mouse cursor change to a "resize" cursor.

- Control style editing.
You can change the styles of your controls by selecting them from
the available list in the "Styles" section of the properties view. In
this version, there is no style-conflict checking so depending on
which combination of styles you select for your control, you may get
some strange results! As an example, you can now add or remove scroll
bars from your windows, by selecting them in the Styles sections

- Grouped Radio Button Support.
In order to group radio buttons together, you must first create a
"button group" from the menu. After you create the button group, make
sure it is selected and begin to add radio buttons to it. Those radio
buttons will be associated with each other as a group. Radio button
styles are not yet supported.

- Accelerator Key Support.
Menus have accelerator key support (i.e. press CTRL-W to create a new
window).

- GDE remembers the last projects you were accessing.

- Some controls are now removed from the main menu and are now styles
within other controls. For example, instead of creating a Check Box
control from the menu, you can now create a "Push Button" control and
then select the "Check Box" style to change the control to a check box.
Combo boxes and edit controls were also changed in this manner.

- This version will not recognize older project files that you may have
saved. Sorry, you'll have to recreate them!
However, if your investment has been heavy (meaning that you built
a thousand projects with the beta release of XBLite GDE, which I doubt),
let me know and I can write an import function from the beta release projects.

Happy XBLite visual programming!
Guy

[guy....@wanadoo.fr]

Hi xblite list,

Sorry, I did not intend to start a new thread of discution.

Any suggestion for a good name?

I came up with:
- guidex (GUI DEsigner for Xblite)
- xblGDE (XBLite Graphical Design Environment)
- vXBLite (Visual XBLite)
- vixen (VIsual Xblite ENvironment)
- xUde (XBLite User Design Environment)

My favorite is xUde, in the line of xSed

Guy

[Fano]

viXen is a funny idea (OMG ! that remember me my 14yo) but i think xUde
is a good name for your program.Sounds like something in regular xblite
utilities.