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Title: 3 hopefully easy to implement features.
Post by: Elias Montoya on November 02, 2013, 03:32:34 AM
1.- The Forms have a BackBitmap property as well as a BackBitmapMode, how about adding a mode to shape the form (transparent regions) making transparent the sections with a special color? (with HIgh DPI support of course) It would come very handy!

2.- How about allowing groups of tabs? Our application consists of 67 forms, and 29 modules. I would like to label forms for a special group, for example, create a group labeled: "UDT wizard" and then display only the tabs for forms that are part of that group, hiding the rest.

3.- A label that writes the text directly to the Window DC. With properties and all, being able to use FF_Control_SetText() to it, and with HIgh DPI support, but working with specially generated code to write directly to the Window DC.

:)
Title: Re: 3 hopefully easy to implement features.
Post by: Israel Vega Alvarez on November 02, 2013, 04:04:11 AM
I love Firefly, but if the new version would have something like this for me would be fantastic.

I sometimes use RadBuilder for presentations with PowerBasic  (by running EXE with OpenRunFile statement) but if I could do with Firefly would not have to do that ... would be integrated into PB code.

This is Longtion RADBUILDER. I love this visual design but would be better with the ease of Firefly and PB:

Title: Re: 3 hopefully easy to implement features.
Post by: Elias Montoya on November 02, 2013, 04:07:15 AM

Exactly. :)
Title: Re: 3 hopefully easy to implement features.
Post by: Marc van Cauwenberghe on November 02, 2013, 05:20:45 AM
I second 1 and 2, especially 1
3 however I do  go understand :(

Marc
Title: Re: 3 hopefully easy to implement features.
Post by: Elias Montoya on November 02, 2013, 06:21:42 AM
 For forms with background images, labels look a little... to square.

Having transparent labels (or a customizable object that allows icons + text that draws directly in the window DC) would make the form look more professional, instead of having a square with text.

Regular labels work great for plain color forms, but look ugly in forms with image backgrounds.
Title: Re: 3 hopefully easy to implement features.
Post by: Marc van Cauwenberghe on November 02, 2013, 06:31:44 AM
OK, got it. I'am in.
Have been trying all sorts of bitblit stuff and none of it worked.

Marc