Controls & Timers..

[Exploration Gaming]

A few suggestions..

As I convert old VB forms to FF I can't quickly see some of the global properties.. (particularly Visible / Enabled) As I view a form on my laptop, I create it in FF3 on my desktop.

I can quickly set the caption control, but I can't see whats enabled/visible at startup quickly in FF. These commands are tucked away under Windows Styles.. Any particular reason why? Can't it just be a property from the UI perspective?

With respect to Timers..

I noticed there isn't an Enable property for timers.. I have a few forms where the timers sit dormant until an action takes place.. How can I default a Timer to disabled on form startup?

Tab Control..

I noticed the Tab Control has a similar bug as the justification of labels. I can't make the tabs appear in the lower left going upward.

[Rolf Brandt]

With respect to Timers..

I noticed there isn't an Enable property for timers.. I have a few forms where the timers sit dormant until an action takes place.. How can I default a Timer to disabled on form startup?

http://www.planetsquires.com/protect/forum/index.php?topic=1391.msg11672#msg11672

[Paul Squires]

I can quickly set the caption control, but I can't see whats enabled/visible at startup quickly in FF. These commands are tucked away under Windows Styles.. Any particular reason why? Can't it just be a property from the UI perspective?

I know exactly what you mean and I went back and forth during the development of FF on whether I would separate out certain properties from the WindowStyles. I nthe end, I decided that it would be best to keep them together. It promotes a better understanding of winapi concepts.

With respect to Timers..

There is a couple of ways to handle this and Rolf has linked to one in his reply post.

I noticed the Tab Control has a similar bug as the justification of labels. I can't make the tabs appear in the lower left going upward.

Thanks, I'll check this out. Can't say that I have ever tested this. 



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[Exploration Gaming]

Ohhh... Timers... (bad)

I was hoping it would behave like VB. Holding the instance values so I wouldn't have to hardcode them.. No worries, I have create my own PowerBASIC timer module so I won't need this one..