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by BruceSteers
Saturday 19th September 2020 8:47pm
Forum: General
Topic: problem with SHELL
Replies: 8
Views: 6465

Re: problem with SHELL

ffprobe has some fancy text output formatting You could do it with redirecting the output in the command and reading in the file... (dont forget the 'Wait' arg or you might miss the output :)) Shell "ffprobe " & Quote(PathToAudioFile) & " 2>/tmp/ffoutput" Wait sVar = File...
by BruceSteers
Saturday 19th September 2020 12:36pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: MakeIcon.module
Replies: 1
Views: 21103

MakeIcon.module

Want your apps to make their own launcher? MakeIcon.module written by Bruce Steers Have your gambas application create it's own launcher icon as either a desktop launcher or a menu entry. Simply add (Import) the MakeIcon.module to your app then you can use the following command... # MakeIcon.MakeMe(...
by BruceSteers
Saturday 19th September 2020 11:42am
Forum: Component
Topic: .Action property , any docs anywhere?
Replies: 4
Views: 4853

.Action property , any docs anywhere?

Anyone know the correct purpose of the .action property on controls? I discovered that if say a form has 2 toggle buttons and they have the same action string set then toggling one toggled the other, they became linked. also we get an action directory in the source folder with action files in a form...
by BruceSteers
Friday 18th September 2020 10:23pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Very simple Icon maker example
Replies: 9
Views: 8807

Re: Very simple Icon maker example

you're absolutly crazy ... big thanks for that ... haha well when you're on it you're on it :) I've now added an offset slider to adjust/move the cropping :) I also found HUGE images would work slowly with moving the crop/updating the image so if it loads an image with a width above 2048px it shrin...
by BruceSteers
Friday 18th September 2020 7:41pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Very simple Icon maker example
Replies: 9
Views: 8807

Re: Very simple Icon maker example

So now it has stretch or crop mode...

Stretch..
Iconify stretch.png
Or Crop...
Iconify crop.png
by BruceSteers
Friday 18th September 2020 7:08pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Very simple Icon maker example
Replies: 9
Views: 8807

Re: Very simple Icon maker example

Interesting work. I can see a use for this. I found the layout not very good on Mint. So I had to tweak it! (An icon tool with no icon?!) Fair enough. it's open source after all, do with it what you want m8, have your own version. :lol: To be honest i didn't see much difference , still not right, j...
by BruceSteers
Friday 18th September 2020 5:43pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Very simple Icon maker example
Replies: 9
Views: 8807

Re: Very simple Icon maker example

another really nice one ... and works fine :D but if the original format is not a square then the result is maybe not soooooooooo nice ... is there a possibility to clip the original? Cheers. This was less an official App and more a bit of fun/practice and a good project for an example for beginner...
by BruceSteers
Friday 18th September 2020 4:08pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GrubHack grub2 boot screen config
Replies: 6
Views: 6052

Re: GrubHack grub2 boot screen config

Right.. lol Firstly thank you for the bug reports , please don't let my "Grrrr ffs!!" attitude seemed aimed at you in any way, that's just me venting lol. I've gone back to gtk as the layout looked better than with qt. Have got rid of the Pango error messages (buggyness) from gtk. How? I l...
by BruceSteers
Friday 18th September 2020 1:13am
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GrubHack grub2 boot screen config
Replies: 6
Views: 6052

Re: GrubHack grub2 boot screen config

only error i'm getting now is this..

bonus@bonus-pc:~$ sudo /media/bonus/Elements/LinuxStuff/GrubHack/GrubHack.gambas
[sudo] password for bonus:
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
bonus@bonus-pc:~$

I think thats my linux config though not the app
by BruceSteers
Friday 18th September 2020 12:47am
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GrubHack grub2 boot screen config
Replies: 6
Views: 6052

Re: GrubHack grub2 boot screen config

really nice that one ... but so much buggy ... aah those gtk layout errors eh. The Pango errors are gtk bugs more than my app and out of my hands. Here's a qt version that doesn't do that. As for the other FMain erorrs i'm not sure, i could not produce them as you did, it had compatibility set for ...