Powerbasic include files

[Marc van Cauwenberghe]

Hello,
starting to convert a few programs this weekend.
Am I correct in thinking that azt this moment powerbasic includes do not work and that you should use Jose's includes?

Marc

[Paul Squires]

If you are converting programs then maybe you should start using Jose's includes. I fully intend to *only* support Jose's includes in FF4.

[José Roca]

Thanks to dead code removal, now I can develop helper classes that I had in mind. Today I have written a class for image lists that makes it very easy to create them, e.g.

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' ========================================================================================
' Create the toolbar control image list
' ========================================================================================
FUNCTION CreateToolbarImageList () AS IAfxImageList

   ' // Create the image list
   LOCAL pAfxImageList AS IAfxImageList
   pAfxImageList  = NewAfxImageList(16, 16, %ILC_COLOR32 OR %ILC_MASK, 14)
   IF ISNOTHING(pAfxImageList) THEN EXIT FUNCTION

   ' // Give a name to the image list
   pAfxImageList.Name = "Toolbar image list"

   ' // Add the icons from the resource file
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_BACK)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_FORWARD)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_NEW)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_FIND)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_PRINTPREV)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_PAGESETUP)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_PRINT)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_PROPERTIES)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_SAVE)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_REFRESH)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_STOP)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_ZOOMIN)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_ZOOMOUT)
   pAfxImageList.LoadResIcon(%IDI_EXIT)

   FUNCTION = pAfxImageList

END FUNCTION
' ========================================================================================


I have in mind to avoid to have to use globals to keep the object references alive storing them into a collection in the CWindow class, but I will have to delay it because I have found an "issue" in the compiler.

I will start to work in a Toolbar class. Toolbars are a pain to create manually.

[Marc van Cauwenberghe]

Ok,

From now on only Jose's includes. Most project were those in fact.

Thanks,
Marc