The VbEclipse project is a Visual Basic 6.0 implementation of the Eclipse perspectives. It provides a high flexible and complete configurable docking MDI solution with a nice user interface.
FEATURES: + Multiple Perspectives + Tabbed Views + Drag & Drop Support + Maximize and Restore Views / Editors + Windows XP Schemes (Classic, Metallic, HomeStead, Normal) + Custom Color Scheme Support by IScheme Interface + Floating Views + Auto hide tab navigation buttons + Disable tab navigation buttons +
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'Windows API/Global Declarations for :VbEclipse Version 1.0 Final (docking MDI solution) - Updated: 01/09/2007
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Private Sub Form_Load()
With Me.ucPerspective1
' Set the handle of main window
.MainHwnd = Me.hWnd
' Register the views
.AddView "Favorites", frmViewFavorites
.AddView "History", frmViewHistory
.AddView "Console", frmViewConsole
' Perspective without an editor area
With .AddPerspective("OnlyViews")
' Add new folders with views
With .AddFolder("Project_Folder", vbRelLeft, 1, .ID_EDITOR_AREA)
.AddView "Project"
.AddView "Objects"
.ActiveViewId = "Objects" ' Set objects view as active view
End With
With .AddFolder("Properties_Folder", vbRelRight, 0.7, "Project_Folder")
.AddView "Properties"
.AddView "Help"
.ActiveViewId = "Help"
End With
With .AddFolder("Console_Folder", vbRelBottom, 0.7, "Properties_Folder")
.AddView "Console"
.AddView "Tasks"
.AddView "Code"
.ActiveViewId = "Tasks"
End With
' Set the perspectives active view
.ActiveViewId = "Project"
' Hide the editor area
.EditorAreaVisible = False
End With
' Create a browser perspective
With .AddPerspective("Browser")
' Add favorites left to the editor area
With .AddFolder("Left_Folder", REL_LEFT, 0.3, .ID_EDITOR_AREA)
.AddView "Favorites"
End With
' Add history bottom to favorites
With .AddFolder("Left_Bottom_Folder", REL_BOTTOM, 0.5, "Left_Folder")
.AddView "History"
End With
' Add console bottom to editor area
With .AddFolder("Bottom_Folder", REL_BOTTOM, 0.7, .ID_EDITOR_AREA)
.AddView "Console"
End With
' Show the editor area
.EditorAreaVisible = True
End With
' Display the browser perspective
.ShowPerspective "Browser"
End With
End Sub
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If I move Project, Objects, Properties and Help all to floating windows, and then change to 'Browser Perspective', the floating windows turn into grey blocks. If I then remove both Object & Help from the window, sometimes the space is not reclaimed by the main window, there is just a grey 'placeholder' block there. Also, I sometimes get a 'object variable not set' error.
If I can figure out how to reproduce this consistently I will let you know. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is a big bug on handling the floating windows. I will fix it in the next update. Thank you for reporting this Dan! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
at work I'm developing Java with the open source Eclipse 3.0 IDE (see www.eclipse.org). This IDE works with perspectives, which gives the developer different views on his source.
If the developer is simply coding Java, he will do this in the java perspective. This perspective has some views like project explorer, tasks, ...
But if you are debugging the source, Eclipse switches to the debug perspective. Here you can see other views like breakpoints, variables or the running tasks.
The user will automaticly see only the views he needs for his current work.
Cause I like this concept, I was inspired to implement this possibility for Visual Basic developers.
And this is also the final goal for this project.
But you can do more with this Control than just create IDE apps. I work on a better example application to show how to use VbEclipse.
Thanks for your interest on my work.
PLEASE VOTE IF YOU LIKE IT :o) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Interesting; I thought you were trying to recreate the VS.NET IDE. Guess I know where MS got their ideas now... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
In the new version, if I perform the sequence above, I no longer get the floating blocks when switching perspectives. But after switching, I got the object variable not set error on floating the Objects window. On repositioning the floating window the error popped up a few more times - at first the former position of the objects window was gray block, but after clicking OK to the errors there was main window underneath. Oddest of all was that the help window retained its original size instead up expanding upwards, making an L-shaped work area in the main window. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
very interesting project, lots of useful stuff in here, could use more comments though. I m currently working on something that more closely mimics the VB IDE, but this gives me some useful ideas for other projects. 5 from me. Well done. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
finally some competition to the TabDock control, excellent :)
1) Difficult to explain this in english: Gäbe es eine Möglichkeit, "ungedockte" Fenster auch in der Mitte, nicht nur außerhalb des Hauptfensters zu positionieren? im Moment kehrt der Maus-Cursor ja einfach in den Normalzustand zurück, wenn man ein Childfenster über das "unmagnetische" Gebiet zieht.
2) when scrolling in a tabstrip, it shows the form behind the tab, but not the tab ;) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Gut zu hören, dass noch jemand seine kleinen Problemchen mit seinem englisch hat...
1) In the next version I will implement creating a floating window if you want to drop a view on the middle of the editor area. Current version does nothing if you try to do this.
2) Thanks for this hint. I will write this on the todo list ;)
Danke! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful O O O O O Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful O O O O O Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful O O O O O (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I like seeing you so determined at this project. You seem to really be pouring your heart and soul into this project. So 5 globes from me. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I have looked through the documentation but cannot find anything about perspectives. I keep getting the error:No active perspective! What am I missing? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Just opening and running the "VbEclipse_VbDocExample.vbg" file. At first glance the form_load for frmMain looked similar to the above example. I will take a closer look. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Doing great with 0.898 so far. Another small suggestion, double clicking a caption bar should "undock" a window and make it floating, this would be very handy. Keep up the excellent work. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Yeah, one more subclassing stuff... I would never use it in commercial app. But if u need something so badly (e.g. docking with dumb vb forms) I guess its the only solution. It have some bugs, but in some xxx version it will work great (except subclassing). Code is written very good (only 3.5k code, excluding useless parts probably waiting for next version). I dont thing u should use [] brackets in enums, it only makes stuff harder. And never use too many vb components in your COM component, they are activex as well (dumb vb controls, just as vb forms) and they slow down your control BADLY. And, nice cpp-style coding ;), too bad vb has that wretched code auto-formatting so u cant organize the code. 5 olives from me, I hope u will win this month.
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Starkes Teil! Hätte mich nicht getraut so was in Angriff zu nehmen! (Und ich hab schon 3 mal so grosse Apps mit VB gebastelt ;) ) Was ich mir nicht so richtig vorstellen kann ist, dass man es dazu benutzen kann eine der MS VB IDE überlegene IDE zu basteln. (Muss ja aber auch nicht sein!) Dafür sind einfach zu viele Funktionen ohne Schnittstellen (leidgeprüfter AddIn Entwickler ;) ) . Den Debug Mode mit Änderungen (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
... hat MS ja (bis jetzt) noch nicht mal in vb.net hinbekommen. Viel Erfolg mit dem Teil - hat gute Chancen auf Code des Monats! Grüße LiTe (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
on a pentium II 500 mhz and win 98 it runs kind of slowly :) (win xp didn't want to boot anymore...), but again, a nice update. just those tabs... ;) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
You know, after browsing your samples of the work you submitted as opensource, if I were you I would rethink what you said and just be happy he shared such nice code with your simple mind.
5 balls from me and ignore the m0nkeys like that around here. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
When adding new tabs to the tabStrip, it always makes the last tab you added as current, how can you set another tab, or even the 1st tab in the tabstrip, to current/default. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Thx to Richard V. for his single ball voting!!! But he didn't tell me why the code is so poor :(
I have worked hard on this project the last two months and I want to thank you all for your great votings and your helpful comments. That was a really great motivation for me !!!
Thx to you all :o) !!! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Please if it's not a trouble you might place in English the commentaries that you put in your language.
I would be grateful for it to you. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
2/19/2005 2:46:14 AM:
I set the perspective width to 10250, a folder and 6 view, then a tab will be cut of hal displayed and some else dissapear, it still work but annoying, i think it would be nice if u add some routine to make the tabstrip on the rect. focus. anyway this code is still great..but i only can give u 4 globe, i wait for the next update. ..excellent code, great job (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
2/22/2005 7:51:40 AM:
Excellent. Easily worth *****. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Still has the "no perspective" problem on my XP sp2 but works great on Win 2K. For some reason, on Win 2K it seems to be forgiving when no perspective is found while initializing the perspective control. I wish I could give you more help than my emails with some of my troubleshooting. This is a very nice set of controls and I would like to use them. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I have developed the VbEclipse control on WinXP SP2 and it works on my system.
Can you give me a better description of your problem? What is about your perspective layout? How many folders do you add? Does the included "simple example" run correct? Please tell me the complete error message occured. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
It is the same problem as above on 2/5. The same as what I emailed you about the on error routine allowing it to work on 2K but was not in affect on XP.
The basic problem being (while running your included sample) that while the perspective control is being initialized at the very beginning, I get an error - "No active perspective!" If you look, that is actually your error in the control code. This is way before it even get to any of the form code.
On my Win 2K, the initialization does not cause a problem. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
To AB-Software, I was wondering if anything was implemented yet for restoring the last state of the perspectives? I write CryptIM (havent for awhile now but I am in the mood to do a lot more work on it.) View it and a screenshot here http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=50613&lngWId=1
Look at that screenshot of the server. I think vbEclipse could replace my user interface and it would allow the server administrators to lay out the information they want to see in the way they want to see it. I was just wondering if any simple "save current state of all windows and restore on next startup" feature was in any way implemented? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I am getting this error when I try and run my little project I made to try out a vbEclipse based project from scratch: control 'com_ab_software_ui_editorarea' not found
Any ideas what this is? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Its because I had this commented out: .EditorAreaVisible = True
Here is the issue. I dont want an "editor" area. I want it to all be views. Can I do that? I dont want the gray background area of a blank editor to show up at all. I just want views. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hi Gregg, I will upload the next update this weekend. The bug (EditorAreaVisible = False) will be fixed then... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Awesome, glad to see you are working so much on this. It is a great project. Looking at my mockup so far I am really going to like the cryptim server once its all ported over to this new interface. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Now that I can hide the editor area, what do I set the refid to on AddFolder instead of .ID_EDITOR_AREA? Since it is still set to that all the views and folders are maximized and dont show up how I want them. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Have you given any thought to including some other controls in this? Such as a button control (like lvButton by LaVolpe maybe,) that matches the scheme you have set for the perspective its in. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
ViewCaptionIcons = False is not working correctly. All the tabs and captions still have the icons from the forms. Is there a way to turn that off? or a way to have it scale the icons down since they are too big and look wierd.
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2/28/2005 4:32:26 AM:
Hi Andy Hope u win, 4 such excellent work. ***** big ones from me. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Andreas, Nice job. I can see all the work you've put into this. The code is good, the code formatting is excellent. I have had a few freezes with docking, but I have no doubt you'll work it out. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
i put several controls in a form, add it to the Perspective, but press "Tab" key, no focus within the controls, where is my tab key? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I very much like vbEclipse, it is most excellent. I was using tabdock, but this cleaner looking, leaves no artifacts ont he screen, and is much more integrated with the editing environment, and besides, tabdock is old and seems rather unsuported. I am wondering, though about support for vbEclipse- no update for almost a year, and I posted a bug on the a-b website a few weeks ago, and there is no reply. Here is what I find to be 'buggy' - when a view is closed, and then re-opened, it doesn't reopen in the same folder it was in, it re-opens on the last folder created. This is documented in the code, so it seems by design, but it is not ecplipse type behavior (nor visual studio or anything else i've used). I have modified my copy of vbEclipse to correct this, but I wonder if others find this 'design feature' as undesirable as I do. It would be great if feedback could be incorporated back into this project. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Absolutely love the code!! It's beautiful! But I'm running into issues. I have compiled it into an OCX and referenced it in a project. When using it, every other run in the IDE shows all the windows with black backgrounds. Every other time the title bar do not appear correctly and I'm given one extra View that I did not invoke. Can you assist me or do I just need to add it in after the fact? This also happens when I compile the entire project and run outside the IDE. Thanks! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
As i Can see on your screenshoot, it's a good component... But i have an error when i try to use this activex with your projects. it's concerning the VIEW_LIST_INACTIVE which can't be found (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
without seeing your code I've rated your code as an excellent code
I know that you've workedout to make that and I just see in screenshot as a good look one... not tired to see (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I upload this great code in this URL with small changes and new properties http://www.fileupyours.com/files/43706/VbEclipse%201.0.rc5.zip (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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