Wish Layouts

[LucaMs]

The framework - set of internal libraries, will be open sourced.

I'm not sure that such change will be as significant as you describe. The 4 IDEs actually share 90% of the code between them and the IDE is small enough that it is not a big deal to have 4 copies of it.

I tried to "paste" some views "copied" from Designer (selecting them all and pressing CTRL+C) to a text editor, without success, so the Windows Clipboard does not contain text.

Will be "shared" (open source) this too? Can I manage it some way even now (as well as being able to copy them in another designer - or in another layout, which of course already feasible now)?

 

[Erel]

There is no relation between the framework being open sourced and the ability to paste the layout to a text editor.

 

[LucaMs]

There is no relation between the framework being open sourced and the ability to paste the layout to a text editor.

So, is there no way, now nor in future, for us to be able to manage them with other custom-personal tools?

 

[Erel]

This is the wishlist forum. If you have any request then post it and also include the relevant use case for the request.

 

[LucaMs]

It is a (maybe not so clear) "wish": I would like to know how copying works and how to use it, not only in the B4X IDEs

It does not seem to me a question to ask in the question forums.

If it looks like that to you, you can move it, right?

 

[Erel]

The clipboard data for layouts is not meant to be used externally. If you want to build a tool that does something with the layouts then use BalConverter class that reads layout files.

 

[LucaMs]

The clipboard data for layouts is not meant to be used externally. If you want to build a tool that does something with the layouts then use BalConverter class that reads layout files.

I remember (vaguely) that I used it but that the result was not very satisfactory (or I didn't understand it well).

Perhaps it has changed since then; I'll try.