Workspace advice

[AndyGable]

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone could help me

I have worked out how to use the Workspace tool (reather cool if you ask me) but everytime I add a form to the Workspace it is maximized.

I have set the form not to maximize but it does anyway . how do I stop the workspace from maximizing my forms? as some of the forms are
designed to be small and they look silly in full screen.

[cogier]

Can you explain what you are trying to do and perhaps post some example code.

[PJBlack]

workspace is not a tool but a container who is able to embed top level windows ... and every embeded window is resized to the clientw and clienth of his new parent (workspace)

[AndyGable]

Hi all,

I hope this can help with what I am trying to do

When the application starts up I can display this



when the user presses A (sign on) at the moment i am getting this



but I would like this



is there another way of doing this as the while key labels are used though out the application

[PJBlack]

reparent your forms to panels ...

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FMain -> Panel1 (set x,y,w,h like you desire)
      -> Panel2 (set x,y,w,h like you desire)
         

FLaneClosed.Reparent(Panel1 [,x,y] )
FLogon.Reparent(Panel2 [,x,y] )                '' Setting x und y doesnt work for me here, but ...

[cogier]

I have put together a sample program. It does not use Workspace. See if it helps.

LaneClosed-0.0.1.tar.gz

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[AndyGable]

Thanks for all the advice

would the panel method work with the individual forms key functions?

for example the frmsignedoff has this key press
A = Show the signed off screen
E = Show user Menu (populate the options on the side)
F1-F8 would use the menu option on the side


when the signed on screen is showed its keyPress are as follows
0-9 number entry
J = clear
k = Cancel and show the signed off screen
Enter = Moves down to the password screen and then when password has been entered it would then check the user details
in the database and is the user is found the system would sign on the entered cashier.

[cogier]

I have made some more modifications for you.

It is not complete, but it should get you going.

LaneClosed-0.0.2.tar.gz

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[PJBlack]

would the panel method work with the individual forms key functions?

whom do you ask?

so if you ask me, i gave you a hint, charlie offers you a solution. if i had to, i would choose my variant, but a lot more detailed work is required here ... as always when you move outside the standard. Charlie's program is neatly structured, simple and logical. My recommendation would be to continue there ...

[AndyGable]

@cogier,

Thanks I shall have a look and see what I can do

but at the moment I still can not fully get my head around this

@PJBlack
I can see Gambas is not at all like VB but I am sure i will get it in the end I assume Gambas implements this workspace how it does due to the way linux and the xserver works (or is it actually a Gambas thing?)

Your methold works but none of the separate key presses are supported (as I see it the form is embedded into the fMain form so its key presses are being trigger and not the frmSignedOff etc.

@General Rant
Am I asking to much from Gambas? I know i can Just install Windows 7 onto the customers PoS terminals but I would like to have linux on the front end for speed and security (ideally I will be moving the back office systems into Linux as well at some point but all my programs use the Windows MDI interface)