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    thinForm - clunky to use, but a form designer none the less :)

    Petr has updated thinForm to use all of the latest thinBasic goodies.

    Thanks to Petr for the updates and fixes again!

    You can download the latest version from here:
    http://www.thinbasic.com/community/s...5999#post85999
    Last edited by kryton9; 30-01-2012 at 04:46.

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    Re: I made a form creator

    Can someone give me a URL reference for downloading the most recent version of thinForm. I( would like to give it a try.

    Thanks.

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    Re: I made a form creator

    I have this version, not sure if last one but is the last one I have.

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    Re: I made a form creator

    Thanks Eros for helping out, I will place links here for everything... I have in the first post for future access.
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    Re: I made a form creator

    kryton9:

    I have been tinkering with thinForm (1.4) and noticed something that you probably already know about - but here goes anyway.

    I created a simple form with radio buttons and a push button. After changing the captions on the form, radio buttons, and the push button, I saved the form and then generated a thinBasic source file. The executed source looks just like the form looked when I was generating it.

    However, when I restarted thinForm and loaded the saved form, only the window's caption was still as I had changed it before. The captions on all the controls on the form were set back to their thinForm's defaults.

    Otherwise, thinForm works pretty slick. I found your Windows Media demos especially helpful.

    Don B.
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    Re: I made a form creator

    Thanks Don glad you are playing with it and like it, and thanks for the bug report. I sort of stopped working on it as I found using and making forms using the Free Turbo Delphi and then making a dll for the form was easy to setup and use in thinBasic. This way you have all the power of that IDE.

    I do think of ways of bringing that type of interface to thinBasic. I am just not there at this moment in my powerBasic learning to try to write something like that. It is on my mind though. A visual form designer is just too valuable of a tool not to have and I am sure others are thinking about it too.
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    thinForm v 1.6

    I updated thinForm to version 1.6

    I fixed a few bugs / mistakes that Eros pointed out.
    Also fixed a strange bug that lost the control names.

    You have two options:
    1. generate a script that you can run as before.
    2. saves to ini file
    when you press save, it now saves it to an ini format file
    you can use the ini file to write your own load routines for
    flexibility.
    load in thinForm now loads the file autoform.ini that is
    generated by the save button

    If you run autoform.tbasic, all is well. It works as it should.
    If you run thinform again and press the load button, the form is drawn the wrong size, but the controls are in the correct places.
    You just have to resize your form to see all the controls again.

    Everything else is as before in the previous video tutorials.

    I just cleaned up version 1.5. Got rid of fields I didn't use so the ini file output doesn't waste space for fields that are never used.
    I also added renaming existing autoform.ini files so that they don't get written over by accident.


    The latest version is in the first post on this page.
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    Re: thinForm - clunky to use, but a form designer none the less :)

    Hi Kent,

    thanks for new version!


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    Re: thinForm - clunky to use, but a form designer none the less :)

    That was my first major project in thinBasic, it felt strange working on it and to think of all the new things that have come in thinBasic since back then
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    Re: thinForm - clunky to use, but a form designer none the less :)

    Thanks Kent, it is nice to see that you are much more into thinBasic again.

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