B4J Question [Solved] Beta version B4J Custom Views

DonManfred

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• Jan 22, 2016

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Daestrum said:

or a library

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Yes, he did. But i think he means java libraries which are providing new Features (designer properties).
A wrapper for a view now can contains annotations for the properties...
See the bottom part of the tutorial.

 

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LWGShane

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• Jan 22, 2016

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Is the designer window active when you add it to the project? I believe you have to refresh the designer by closing and opening it again.


@DonManfred - Totally posted this in the wrong thread and had to repost here. (In case you got a notification of me mentioning you and having the post not be there.)

 

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Daestrum

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• Jan 22, 2016

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Tried adding after designer opened, before I opened it, but it still will not see the control when in a library.

I will try re-doing as pure java library and see if it recognises it then.

 

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LWGShane

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• Jan 22, 2016

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@Daestrum - Hmm. It works for me. I imported the module, opened the designer, and the control is there. I also did a test and when you import a module with the designer open, it doesn't recognize it so I had to close then re-open the designer.

Are you importing via Project > Add Existing Module ?

 

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Daestrum

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• Jan 22, 2016

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@ColdBlueLava no as it's compiled as a library I simply add in the libraries tab.
If I add as a 'normal' module (.bas) all is well.


EDIT
Re-wrote in pure java and it works, the designer can see it, so I must be missing something when making it into a library from the IDE.

 

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Daestrum

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• Jan 23, 2016

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Sorted - found the cause of the problem.

The IDE > Library uses the old Doclet (v1.00), which leaves out the DesignerCreateView sub

Simply by editing the xml for the library and inserting the missing method, the control appears in the internal designer.

The missing method is (corrected for the IDE making names lower case)

B4X:

   <method>
	<name DesignerName="DesignerCreateView">_designercreateview</name>
	<comment></comment>
	<returntype>void</returntype>
	<parameter>
		<name>base</name>
		<type>anywheresoftware.b4j.objects.PaneWrapper.ConcretePaneWrapper</type>
	</parameter>
	<parameter>
		<name>label</name>
		<type>anywheresoftware.b4j.objects.LabelWrapper</type>
	</parameter>
	<parameter>
		<name>args</name>
		<type>anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.collections.Map</type>
	</parameter>
</method>

Hope this helps others to produce custom controls from the IDE > compile to library.

 

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Cableguy

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• Jan 23, 2016

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Still this is a workaround that should be fixed for final release, right @Erel?

 

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Erel

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• Jan 24, 2016

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Note that the IDE doesn't use the doclet at all.

Is it possible that the DesignerCreateView sub was private in your code?

 

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Daestrum

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• Jan 24, 2016

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Erel said:

Is it possible that the DesignerCreateView sub was private in your code?

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You are correct, (but to be fair the template creates it that way).

Correction, no it doesn't , I changed it.

 

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