Today I cared about the Clipboard in aros, how to get a text from there and how to put a text here.
I should say it was not that difficult, but only because I had a example source code in C functions toClip and fromCli. But first I had to create an iffparse unit because the informations are saved as IFF in the clipboard. Has the advantage that you can everything what you can transport via IFF format, so pictures, sounds and of course Text.
The first function GetTextFromClip was really simple and worked directly, PutTextToClip in principle the same easy task but it didn’t work always end with error -6 on PushChunks. I compared all calls and variables but all seems to be correct. Then I tried to make copy paste in editor but there it also didn’t work. So Something was wrong with AROS self. After a restart of AROS both routines worked very nice, strange like always.
I will put both routines into Clipboard unit for easy access from fpc programs. Perhaps later also make a version for images.
As first test I added it to the FP IDE, there is already something prepared for windows to get the Clipboard from Windows.
Today I bring all together and release. A not complete lists of changes/bugfixes for this realease:
* some basic units moved from arosunits to rtl, also helpful if later joined with amiga and morphos
– amigados, agraphics, exec, inputevent, intuition, layers,
– longarray, pastoc, tagsarray, timer, utility
– IMPORTANT: DELETE UNITS BEFORE INSTALL NEW VERSION TO GET RID OF UNITS IN OLD DIRECTORY
* changed all library calls to cdecl
* Startup and finishing code improved
* FileGetDate/FileSetDate implemented
* GetEnvironmentVariableCount/GetEnvironmentString implemented (example code by magorium)
* Video unit with fullscreen support (color tag = False)
* Keyboard unit rewritten, better identification of keys for fp ide, mousewheel as pgup/pgdwn
* free vision GetDosTicks implemented (needed for double click)
* layers aros unit (thanks to anon and magorium)
* FPGUI:
– MOUSEENTER/MOUSELEAVE implemented
– MOUSEMOVE with mouse grabbing
– KEYRELEASE implemented
– Input focus implemented
– Modal windows, blocking of other windows
– save closing of window (removing of messages from message port)
– combobox closing when a entry is selected repaired (hopefully)
serk118uk in aros-exec Forum reminded me of the „good old days“ where „it was just little bluescreen with ide and (F5) to compile..“ turbopascal, freepascal has a very similar surface with a turbo vision like surface. I remember that the ide for morphos is already prepared and working, so it should be not so difficult to bring it to aros. So here it is…. I’m feeling younger than ever.
besides this I worked on the key press problem it seems now its completely working (except § and some special chars but i dont‘ know why I also need an other keyboard for my computer… this one has no right amiga key so I can’t test it (and no copy paste).
The menu shift problem is partly solved but still needs some testing.
I’m also aware that finally it will be important to write a sort of installation manual and readme for fpc@aro. Also the release archive must be reorganized before it can be a real release of fpc with fpgui. I hope soon I have time for it.
There is a Window inspection tool in AROS called WiMP sadly it does not show Parent relations for the windows, which i use now intensively.
So i wrote an own program to inspect the windows also bring them to front an paint a red border on it (see screenshot) and show properties (especially the IDCMP flags and flags as Text not only as number).
It was a good way to find bugs. Some small I fixed already. A big one hindered me to write the program directly in maximus compiled on AROS. Some keys seems to send a double key to the GUI mostly when Shift is pressed (for example Shift-L seems sends also the key-up to the gui so the cursor goes one up then write a big „L“), need to debug. but besides this problem it worked rather nice. Also the UIDesigner worked rather nicely to place buttons, edit properties, even movement of items is very slow and atm. its not possible to delete items placed (have to check why).
The first and most important work was Code cleaning and debug messages removal to distribute a very first Version of fpc with some lcl units.
Besides this i played around with recordmyDesktop for linux to make Movies. (Tutorials for fpc/lcl?) with the gui its very nice to use, even the selection of area to record is a little bit difficult, because the preview picture is so small.
