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HBuGUI

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:30 pm
by Roberto Lopez

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:51 pm
by andyglezl
Demasiado maravilloso para que fuera verdad... :o :cry:
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Too wonderful to be true ... :o :cry:

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 2:43 am
by luisvasquezcl
fue publicado el dia de inocentes .... y todavia siguen callendo ajajjaa

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 10:14 am
by Anand
WOW ! So happy to see Roberto López, Grigory Filatov and other greats contributing to this project for the benefit of the harbour application developers.

Regards,

Anand

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 4:54 pm
by CalScot
It's wonderful - until you read it to the very end and the dream is shattered.
Too good to be true? Or an idea that should be pursued?

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 5:16 pm
by Anand
Maybe joke but not difficult if the greats really decide to meet. I am hoping on that :)

Regards,

Anand

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 8:22 pm
by Roberto Lopez
Well...

Beyond the joke...

Some of the persons mentioned, had developed commercial GUI libraries for Harbour and such products become their mean of livelihood. So, is fully reasonable, that they have not interest on developing a free competitor. I'm ok with this.

Some others, has their own (different) ideas about how a Harbour GUI library should be and considering that them donate their work to the community, is fully reasonable that they want to do it "their way".

Maybe nobody here remember this, but by 2001/2002 some of the persons mentioned, worked together in "HBGUI". A multi-platform GUI for Harbour. It worked and achieved basic functionality. The project stalled because they were not able to agree about some design things. AFAIR (please, correct me if I'm wrong) Antonio Linares and Alexander Kresin were part of that project. Sadly I have no copy of the code.

My decision at that time was that, if the this project progressed, MiniGUI was no sense at all. Surely I would have become a collaborator in samples and documentation areas.

It almost happened :)

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:08 pm
by Roberto Lopez
And...

I guess that, if an 'official' Harbour GUI existed, it could be very similar to Alexander Kresin's HWGUI.

It is multi-platform (Windows and Linux) fully OOP, very light and efficient. I like it very much.

It is more Clipper alike (ie: support @GET with VALID, WHEN, PICTURE,etc.).

For those not knowing it: http://www.kresin.ru/en/hwgui.html

Documentation: http://www.kresin.ru/en/hwgdoc.html

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:48 am
by Anand
Well the commands looks more or less similar to MiniGUI of Grigory, I see

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INIT WINDOW <oWnd>
    	 [ MAIN ]
    	 [ MDI ]
    	 [ MDICHILD ]
         [ APPNAME <appname> ]
    	 [ TITLE <cTitle> ]
    	 [ AT <x>, <y> ]
    	 [ SIZE <width>, <height> ]
    	 [ ICON <ico> ]
    	 [ SYSCOLOR <sysclr> ]
    	 [ BACKCOLOR <clr> ]
         [ BACKGROUND BITMAP <oBmp>> ]
    	 [ STYLE <nStyle> ]
    	 [ FONT <oFont> ]
    	 [ MENUPOS <nPos> ]
    	 [ ON INIT <bInit> ]
    	 [ ON SIZE <bSize> ]
    	 [ ON PAINT <bPaint> ]
    	 [ ON GETFOCUS <bGfocus> ]
    	 [ ON LOSTFOCUS <bLfocus> ]
    	 [ ON CLOSEQUERY <bCloseQuery> ];
    	 [ ON OTHER MESSAGES <bOther> ]
    	 [ ON EXIT <bExit>]
         [ HELP <cHelp> ]
         [ HELPID <nHelpId> ]
         
Regards,

Anand

Re: HBuGUI

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:18 pm
by Roberto Lopez
Anand wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:48 am Well the commands looks more or less similar to MiniGUI of Grigory, I see

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INIT WINDOW <oWnd>...
HMG is a fork of MiniGUI, they are very very very similar. By the other hand, HWGUI is a very different thing.