Traditionally we define our objects ahead of time and give them all constant values. PBForms does this, and I imagine the other forms designers do as well.
So I thought I would dip my toe in the object waters and decided to use a progress bar as my guniea pig. Since I can create multiple instances of my object, can I avoid pre-defining the control id for my progress bar? Is there a function like the GUID function to create a random id (and hopefully make sure it is not already in use)?
Here my experiment in code:
So I thought I would dip my toe in the object waters and decided to use a progress bar as my guniea pig. Since I can create multiple instances of my object, can I avoid pre-defining the control id for my progress bar? Is there a function like the GUID function to create a random id (and hopefully make sure it is not already in use)?
Here my experiment in code:
Code:
#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL
%ID_VAL = 1001
FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
DIM x AS LONG
DIM y AS LONG
DIM hdlg AS DWORD
DIM mymeter AS MeterProperty
DIM othermeter AS MeterProperty
mymeter = CLASS "progressmeter"
othermeter = CLASS "progressmeter"
mymeter.x = 5
mymeter.y = 20
mymeter.xx = 350
mymeter.yy = 15
mymeter.text = "Where does this show?"
othermeter.x = 5
othermeter.y = 50
othermeter.xx = 350
othermeter.yy = 15
DIALOG NEW 0, "Test Object", 5,5,360,70 TO hdlg
DIALOG SHOW MODELESS hdlg
mymeter.make (hdlg,%ID_VAL)
mymeter.range (1,100)
othermeter.make (hdlg,%ID_VAL+1)
othermeter.range (1,100)
FOR y = 1 TO 100
othermeter.pos = y
FOR x = 1 TO 100
mymeter.pos = x
DIALOG DOEVENTS
NEXT x
NEXT y
MSGBOX "Well?"
END FUNCTION
CLASS ProgressMeter
' Define values that would be required across methods
INSTANCE hdlg AS DWORD
INSTANCE ID AS DWORD
'Define values it might be convenient to pre-define before creating control
INSTANCE ptext AS STRING
INSTANCE x AS LONG
INSTANCE y AS LONG
INSTANCE xx AS LONG
INSTANCE yy AS LONG
INSTANCE exists AS LONG
CLASS METHOD CreateControl(BYVAL hdlgin AS DWORD, IDin AS LONG)
CONTROL ADD PROGRESSBAR, hdlgin, IDin, ptext, x,y,xx,yy,%WS_CHILD OR %WS_VISIBLE OR %WS_BORDER OR %PBS_SMOOTH
exists = 1
hdlg = hdlgin
ID = idin
END METHOD
CLASS METHOD SetRange(BYVAL RANGE AS LONG)
END METHOD
INTERFACE MeterProperty
INHERIT IUNKNOWN
PROPERTY GET x AS LONG
PROPERTY = x
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY SET x (BYVAL v AS LONG)
x=v
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY GET y AS LONG
PROPERTY = y
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY SET y (BYVAL v AS LONG)
y=v
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY GET xx AS LONG
PROPERTY = xx
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY SET xx (BYVAL v AS LONG)
xx=v
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY GET yy AS LONG
PROPERTY = yy
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY SET yy (BYVAL v AS LONG)
yy=v
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY GET TEXT AS STRING
PROPERTY = ptext
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY SET TEXT (BYVAL v AS STRING)
ptext=v
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY GET lorange AS LONG
LOCAL waste AS LONG
LOCAL value AS LONG
IF exists = 1 THEN
PROGRESSBAR GET RANGE hdlg, ID TO value, waste
PROPERTY = value
ELSE
PROPERTY = -1
END IF
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY GET hirange AS LONG
LOCAL waste AS LONG
LOCAL value AS LONG
IF exists = 1 THEN
PROGRESSBAR GET RANGE hdlg, ID TO waste,value
PROPERTY = value
ELSE
PROPERTY = -1
END IF
END PROPERTY
METHOD RANGE (BYVAL loval AS LONG,hival AS LONG)
IF exists = 1 THEN
PROGRESSBAR SET RANGE hdlg, ID, loval, hival
END IF
END METHOD
PROPERTY GET POS AS LONG
LOCAL value AS LONG
IF exists = 1 THEN
PROGRESSBAR GET POS hdlg, ID TO value
PROPERTY = value
ELSE
PROPERTY = -1
END IF
END PROPERTY
PROPERTY SET POS (BYVAL value AS LONG)
IF exists = 1 THEN
PROGRESSBAR SET POS hdlg, ID, value
END IF
END PROPERTY
METHOD make(BYVAL hdlgin AS DWORD, idin AS LONG)
me.CreateControl (hdlgin, idin)
END METHOD
END INTERFACE
END CLASS
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