Having a good Property Editor is important for BSA. In QML I had no choise but to start making my own, but I have ended up doing the same on every platform I tried. In WPF I could get a free one or buy one, but do I want to? My objects will have sub-tables…
One of the hardest things you do in Windows development is to change the Title bar and integrate that better in your application. What you basically need to do is to switch off the Windows Title bar and create your own. I have done this in Forms and Qt/QML, but WPF stunned me with how…
This is the WPF version of BSA after a few hours of work. It’s not much to look at, but I will focus on BSA itself and not the dark theme/cool look this time. Firstly I need to learn WPF so I can generate code for it anyway – but, I also expect to find…
Most of my focus is on SW for the time being, and it is sadly less interesting to write about yet. My BSA project is ambiguous specially since I keep switching development platform. Back in the early days I did vector graphics on DOS. The challenge then was that you needed to even develop raster…
This simple drawing illustrate how I can create a gauge with several separate layers. In this case I draw a background and a needle on top of that. The final gauge is illustrated at top. This is exacly how I plan to embed a gauge editor in BSA – by using a table with x…
This example is a valid Plain Logic Diagram. Since the start and exit symbols are drawn on the same diagram this will count as a single diagram then it is re-used. It will be a block with 3 entry points and 3 possible events. Ignore the fact that Start3 and Exit3 is a separate diagram…
This is just an auto-generated demo (new application) using Visual Studio/MFC. I use Visual Studio Community so you can download this and try for yourself. I switched from DOS to Windows back in early 90’s using Windows SDK and C at first – I remember the day I got my hands on Visual C++ 1.0…
Setting up all the colors needed for controls is actually a bit of job because you need a set of colors for (1) Normal display, (2) Mouse Hover, (3) different states. In this case I show a button so I need Pressed. And for each set I need background, text and border etc. So, if…
My previous entry raised the issue about how to edit multi-line text. The illustrations below show one possibility. In this case I illustrate a description – something I want on every object. This is a normal property, but since it is a multi-line text it servers little purpose to display it on a few characters…
This shows the Note – the Note is a tool allowing you to write text with a Note border around it and it can be linked to obkects with lines etc – a handy way to make comments. However – how do we edit the note? (1) display the full note, while (2) display the…