Widget

[Patrice Terrier]

GDImage 5.00, has everything to produce state of the art Widget

A GDImage Widget, is an aggregation of several sprite objects working together as a single entity.

In this screen shot, you can see from the top left to the bottom right corner:

• A clock animated control.
• Two animated rotating wheels.
• An animated goldfish.
• Two TTF sprite objects.
• A temperature Widget, with progress and digital display.
• A see flow gauge Widget.
• A Cape/Knts navigation Widget.
• A wind orientation Widget.

and an exclusive skinned interface to stand out from the crowd


Example of script code to produce a Widget:

PROCEDURE WidgetTemperature(LOCAL nGDImageCtrl is int, LOCAL nX is int, LOCAL nY is int, LOCAL rTemperature is 4-byte real)

nBitmap, nCropBitmap, nW, nH are int
nFontSize is int = 22
sUseFont is string = "LCD"//"ARIAL"
nTemperature is int = rTemperature // Casting to integer
nTemperature = (nTemperature + 4) * 4
stemperature is string = NumToString(rTemperature)

IF ZD_GetObjectBitmap(IDS_TEMPERATURE) = 0 THEN
	nBitmap = ZI_CreateBitmapFromFile(gsSkinComponentPath + "Temperature.png", nW, nH)
	ZD_DrawBitmapToCtrl(nGDImageCtrl, nX, nY, nBitmap, ZD_ColorARGB(255, 0), IDS_TEMPERATURE, ZS_VISIBLE)
	ZD_SetObjectLocked(IDS_TEMPERATURE, True)
	
	// Create a hidden object to manipulate the progress bar
	nBitmap = ZI_CreateBitmapFromFile(gsSkinComponentPath + "TempProgress.png", nW, nH)
	ZD_DrawBitmapToCtrl(nGDImageCtrl, 0, 0, nBitmap, ZD_ColorARGB(255, 0), HID_TEMPPROGRESS, ZS_HIDDEN)
	
ELSE
	ZD_SetObjectXY(IDS_TEMPERATURE, nX, nY, False)
END

// Create a new object with the good size, by croping the hidden progress object bitmap.
nBitmap = ZI_CropBitmap(ZD_GetObjectBitmap(HID_TEMPPROGRESS), 0, 0, nW - nTemperature - 8, nH, 0)
ZD_DrawBitmapToCtrl(nGDImageCtrl, nX - 4 + nTemperature, nY, nBitmap, ZD_ColorARGB(255, 0), IDS_TEMPPROGRESS, ZS_VISIBLE)
ZD_SetObjectLocked(IDS_TEMPPROGRESS, True)

IF ZD_GetObjectBitmap(IDS_TEMPMASK) = 0 THEN
	nBitmap = ZI_CreateBitmapFromFile(gsSkinComponentPath + "TempMask.png", nW, nH)
	ZD_DrawBitmapToCtrl(nGDImageCtrl, nX, nY, nBitmap, ZD_ColorARGB(255, 0), IDS_TEMPMASK, ZS_VISIBLE)
	ZD_SetObjectLocked(IDS_TEMPMASK, True)
END

IF ZD_GetObjectParent(IDS_TEMPCELCIUS) = 0 THEN
	ZD_DrawTextToCtrl(nGDImageCtrl, "", nX, nY, gnFontColor, (sUseFont), nFontSize, IDS_TEMPCELCIUS, ZS_VISIBLE, 0, 0)
END

nX += 18; nY += 62 
ZD_SetObjectXY(IDS_TEMPCELCIUS, nX, nY, False)
ZD_SetObjectText(IDS_TEMPCELCIUS, sTemperature)	
ZD_SetObjectLocked(IDS_TEMPCELCIUS, True)

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[Mark Strickland]

Drool (does that translate to French -- Salivate)

Patrice,

I have considered GDImage in the past but I don't have the much justification.

Maybe I just need to find a project so I can buy and quit "drooling". :thinking:

Edit:
Can you post this program as an EXE/ZIP so we can see it in action?

[John Reinking]

Patrice,

Could you elaborate on

Example of script code ...

Is this interpreted on the fly?

[Patrice Terrier]

John--

GDImage works with different programming languages, hence this "script" is pseudo code, just replace "procedure" by "sub" or "function" and you are done

And yes, some "IL" or "p-code" languages are able to "compile" such script on the fly.


Mark--

Graphics, graphics, graphics, graphics, graphics ...

I plan to translate this project to PowerBASIC once i am done with it.

It is used to represent GPS and Marine navigation data, in a photo-realistic way to replace the "classic" electronic equipments for a french thony fishing company on their new boats.

PS: I have attached another Widget, that is being used to display the water deepth.

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