FireFly Visual Designer for FreeBASIC (Updated March 8, 2016)

TbbW · Post by **TbbW** » Nov 07, 2010 7:48

Anyone know how to use a custom grafic controle ?

One to set the grafic from fbgfx or simular :)

So far iwe only seen load picture into a controle but i might be looking at a totaly wrong spot.

bulrush · Post by **bulrush** » Nov 18, 2010 13:47

Neat! I hope this gets further than RapidQ did.

Raddel · Post by **Raddel** » Dec 21, 2010 14:18

Very nice and great tools.... everybody need to try this.. :)

PaulSquires · Post by **PaulSquires** » Dec 21, 2010 18:30

Thanks!

I am waiting until after Christmas to release the next update.

Kuron · Post by **Kuron** » Dec 21, 2010 22:27

PaulSquires wrote:Thanks!

I am waiting until after Christmas to release the next update.

I will be looking forward to it! Thank you, Paul.

badidea · Post by **badidea** » Dec 22, 2010 0:20

Just curious. Why the name FireFly? Anything to do with the Firefly science fiction tv-series?

PaulSquires · Post by **PaulSquires** » Dec 22, 2010 12:02

badidea wrote:Just curious. Why the name FireFly? Anything to do with the Firefly science fiction tv-series?

:-) Not related to the tv series. My other software was named after animals.... JellyFish Pro Editor, Cheetah Database System..... FireFly seemed like a good fit at the time (4 years ago).

Kot · Post by **Kot** » Dec 22, 2010 14:28

badidea wrote:Just curious. Why the name FireFly? Anything to do with the Firefly science fiction tv-series?

Browncoats for ever!

owen · Post by **owen** » Dec 25, 2010 16:34

Paul, is it after Christmas yet?
Looking forward to your update!

PaulSquires · Post by **PaulSquires** » Dec 26, 2010 0:20

owen wrote:Paul, is it after Christmas yet?
Looking forward to your update!

:-) Almost. I am off work all week so I should be able to get the update out pretty soon. It would be based on version 3.10 bug fixes that I implemented for the commercial version of FireFly that I maintain for another BASIC language.

roook_ph · Post by **roook_ph** » Jan 02, 2011 3:41

Happy new year paul do you have a collection of your old versions? The newest version causes a flickering image library window everytime I use it on my newly aqcuired celeron m intel 82852/82855 graphics card laptop

Never mind its fine now Must be the sp2 or ver 20 of fb I changed both then reinstalled thanx

PaulSquires · Post by **PaulSquires** » Jan 02, 2011 14:55

I just posted the latest FireFly Visual Designer for FreeBASIC. You can download it from: http://www.freebasiccompiler.com

Most changes for version 3.10 were related to the other BASIC language that FireFly supports. The list below is common to to FB as well.

- Added the "New" keyword to the Freebasic.txt keyword file.
- "Dim Shared" lines were not being moved to the CODEGEN*_DECLARES.INC code generated file.
- Fixed the FF_BrowseForFolder function. It was not enabling the "OK" button.
- 0000768: [Bug] Project file not saving correctly when UNC path names used (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000759: [Bug] GPF when inserting Code Complete text after a series of collapsed functions (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000748: [Unfinished Code] CheckBoxes missing the BS_LEFTTEXT windowstyle (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000749: [Bug] Code complete extra commas or parenthesis (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000758: [Unfinished Code] Missing "as BIT" in code complete popup (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000763: [Bug] Double-Clicking on a control other than the first in the control array does not invoke default message handler for the control (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000764: [New Feature Request] Check that FireFly3.ini is not read-only (FF incorrectly installed into protected \Program Files\ area). (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000766: [Bug] Recently added code generation %WM_GETMINMAXINFO code caused maximizing MDI child forms to fail (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000754: [Bug] Disallow the ampersand and double quotes in certain Project Version fields (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000753: [Bug] Incorrect Pointer graphic in FireFly Toolbox being displayed (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000752: [New Feature Request] Filter out illegal characters from Version fields (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000745: [Bug] Doubleclick on top tab (that is not the active tab) in the visual designer could sometimes cause program to crash. (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000738: [Bug] Right click on StatusBar in designer mode causes GPF (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000737: [Bug] Menu not generated for Forms with no other controls (bug introduced in v3.09) (Paul Squires) - closed.
- 0000736: [Bug] Code Edit window repositions incorrectly in some situations when tab is closed and then reopened later (Paul Squires) - closed.

Post by **fxm** » Jan 02, 2011 15:02

@PaulSquires

Can you provide a version ".zip" (portable), or at least not asking for administrator rights?

PaulSquires · Post by **PaulSquires** » Jan 02, 2011 22:12

Hi fxm,

I uploaded the files into a standard zip archive. You just need to be sure to preserve the folder structure when you unzip the contents.

Here is the link (1.82 megs): http://www.freebasiccompiler.com/files/ ... ebasic.zip

Good luck!

PaulSquires · Post by **PaulSquires** » Jan 02, 2011 22:14

I really do need to add some example programs to show better how to create winapi based Windows applications.

:-)