InForm Shanghai

[krovit]

Hello to everybody,
these days stay at home, please. QB64 helps!

I think everyone knows that game called Shanghai... that skill game with chopsticks scattered on the table that must be moved without others falling.

I followed Ashish's advice - which I still thank for the genius of his GuiMenu Tools - and looked at Fellippe Heitor's code.
Very nice to look at, and I love how he writes it! In my own small way, my style approaches his... But in substance, even a step towards a city 1000 miles away is still closer...
They say BASIC is easier to understand than C... hum!

I tried to extract the code that concerns the menu... but try to guess. What? Obviously it takes hours and every time a lost or shifted comma is enough and everything freezes. Kind of like the game I said.

So I have a request to Fellippe... can you, please, publish the code that contains only the menu management...?

If I ask too much, patience... but it would be a nice service for everyone. Or not?

Thank you.

[FellippeHeitor]

Hello, krovit

Thanks for your interest in InForm.

The short answer to your request is "no". Here's the longest answer:

Everything in InForm is treated the same way internally, so everything is a "control". Be it a button, a listbox, a text field, a PictureBox or even a menu item, everything is stored in memory and treated the same. Because of that approach, I cannot separate the "menu" engine, as there actually isn't one. What there is is a generalized GUI engine and it's all integrated.

If the only GUI element you want for your program is a menu bar, my recommendation is to use Ashish's library (https://github.com/AshishKingdom/GUI-Menu-Bar), or even Terry's library (https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2233.msg115058#msg115058), which is also really well built and tested. That way you will be adding code just for that type of interface, and not a full library into your program.

If you have any more inquiries about InForm, I'll be glad to assist you with them.

Fellippe.

[krovit]

Ah, that's why they failed to unmount your code and get something that worked...!

However a great job and a great result.

Conceptually, then, I like the idea of ​​a software that produces another software. And it reminds me of Skynet....

Thank You

[FellippeHeitor]

We'll be back :-)