The MaxGUI Beginner Tutorial Series
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| I just went through all three of them... Very informative. Thanks for taking the time to do something like that. Keep'em coming. Regards, eric |
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| Thank you for your encouragement. More coming soon. |
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| A nice clear intro. Good work! |
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| 2 More tutorials added. Tutorial 4:Panels Tutorial 5:Panels and Mouse Event |
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| Cool, Thank You :) |
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| 3 More tutorials added. Labels and TextFields Listboxes, GadgetItems and Iconstrips More Listboxes and GadgetItems |
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| wonderful!!! assari, thank you very much from an eternal newbie, lol, who appreciates any tutorials in any subject! |
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| Awesome stuff. Thanks! |
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| Really useful, thank you ! Regards, Sergio. |
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| Nice! I like that you explain every step, and with screenshots. And you mange to keep the examples small and focused on the current subject. The tutorials are very well done. I strongly recommend this to anyone new to MaxGUI. I would like a tutorial on how to manage larger MaxGUI applications. Seems to me most MaxGUI programs gets quite "messy" pretty quick when you start to add a lot of things, if you get my point :) Thanks, it helped me to finally get a grip of MaxGUI. |
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| Thanks wave and everyone for the kind words. More complicated stuff could appear later. I still have a few more beginner topics to get done and the vacation days are coming to an end:( Two more tutorials Tutorial 9: Listboxes, Modify and Insert GadgetItems Tutorial 10: ComboBoxes |
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| Two more tutorials added Tutorial 11: Tabbers Tutorial 12: Canvas, Events and 2D Graphics Happy New Year to everyone |
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| This is great, Thanks for all of your help!! Eric |
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| thank you - assari - thank you very much!!!! just in case - if you feel like more, lol - then do not stop yourself - please continue ;-)) |
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| Great work, and highly appreciated. Keep it up. |
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| OK, one more tutorial added. There are a few more topics to cover but updates are going to be slower from now on :( Anyhow, enjoy this one Tutorial 13: Sliders and Scrollbars |
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| One more tutorial added:- Tutorial 14: Menus and Popup Menus see complete set at http://www.2dgamecreators.com/maxgui/index.html |
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| I've a problem with your last tutorial relative to the MODIFIER_COMMAND: ALT+F4 close immediately the program WITHOUT displaying the notify messagge, CTRL+F4 is indeed ok. Why? |
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| MODIFIER_COMMAND = CTRL key MODIFIER_OPTION = ALT key see help file for more In my example the Menu Command will capture only CTRL+F4. ALT+F4 happens to be the hotkey that windows uses to exit a window. If you change the example to use MODIFIER_OPTION instead, it will work as you'd expect HTH |
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| doh! silly me...I didn't notice that the combination ALT+F4 is the normal way I close the applications! Sorry! |
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| I just played, modified and studies your canvas codes, and looked at all other examples. Now, MaxGUI is really alive. Thanks for your effort. |
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| assari, How about one on EventHooks. :) |
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| EventHooks are not exactly beginner stuff. I'm afraid I cannot commit at the moment, a few more topics that I would like to cover in this beginner series. |
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| Hi assari, Really appreciate this series! However, I agree with Eric, I'd REALLY like to understand eventhooks... you do such a great job. Again, thanks for your efforts. |
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| Gamescrubs, Suggest you re-post this question in the beginner forum. I would like to keep this thread focused on this tutorial series. Thank you for your cooperation. |
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| In anycase, Assari, I love your series and use it for reference alot. |
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| Assari, good work! Big houses are made on solid fundaments, and your tutorial is very well explained. And I join the snation's request on eventhook, something it's clear, something's not... |
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| Great job. Could you add a tutorial that explains how to read out the mousebuttons, mousewheel, mousemovement and keypress events? You have left these out and the bmx help as well. How does one check KEY_ESCAPE e.g. |
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| OK, by popular demand, an eventhook tutorial :) Tutorial 15: EventHooks |
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| Grisu, I have not made any specific tutorial on how to catch mouse and key events but they are mentioned when relevant (scattered across the tutorials). What specifically are you after? |
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| Simple stuff: How to check 1. the mousebuttons clicks (1-5) 2. check the mousewheel up/down 3. check if a key has been pressed = keyhit (ESC, Cursor Keys) Maybe I have to relook all tutorials to find the answer... |
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| Yes, like Grisu, I am looking to know how to do those things. Also, does KeyHit(KEY_X), becomes irrelevent when Canvas is used? Why buttons doesn't show up when Canvas is used? For example, I like canvas to be in the left side of the window and buttons on right side, or on a panel, on the right side. How can we deal with those situations? |
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| Thank you very much Assary! Very useful. Just some little info & question: I had a look to the source of AddHook and I saw little interesting things: - the maximum number of AddHook is 255; - AddHook is not properly a 'list' but an array...so if you want to change the 'order of execution' you need to set up a prioriry value or mess in other ways; The question is: can we 'suspend' a user-hook function? I'm lost in the event system at the moment, but I miss any function to 'hold' an event-emission... Keep on going ahead with this tutorials... |
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| assari, Haven't even read the tutorial yet on eventhooks, just wanted to say thanks in advance - I know it'll be helpful. Thank You! |
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| Top Tutorials. Is there a possibility of having these converted to chm or to have them all in one downloadable zip? Thanks :) |
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| Amon, It's on the Roadmap. I want to complete the series first |
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| These tutorials are really great, thanks for your contribution to the community, its highly appreciated. |
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| These are great tutorials, I can actually make sense of MaxGUI now! I don't suppose there is any chance of you a tutorial for doing a file open dialog? Also please regarding the request above, please not just a .chm file, we're not all Windows users! Thanks |
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| Now that I have completed my other tutorial; Making a MaxGUI Application: StripAnimMakerLite, here is another tutorial in this beginner series Tutorial 16: The TextArea Gadget |
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| Top rated tutorials. Thanks. The images from Tutorial 13: Sliders and Scrollbars are not displaying. |
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| Thanks Haramanai for pointing out re the missing images. All fixed now. |
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| Hi Assari, Excellent series of tutorials. I had trouble with this code in Tutorial 9... unless I changed it to... In the first example, after adding an icon flag, I got a default icon (rather than no icon if the path was wrong) unless I changed the code around. |
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| I think it make sense to first set the iconstrip to the listbox before assigning an icon number to the gadgetitem. I got the same error as you described as well if I assign the icons flag before setting the iconstrip to the listbox. |
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| Another one completed: Tutorial 18: The Treeview Gadget - Part 1 Have a read and see what you think. |
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| assari, I think you are doing a truly great work, and very useful to me. I have a couple of (maybe naive) questions about treeviews. One is: how can I return the string of a terminal leaf of the treeview by clicking on it? For instance, I need in my program a big tree and user is allowed to expand nodes until he reaches the desired item (which I call a "terminal leaf"), in a cascading route: how can I return the string associated with it to fill, eg, a database field? Another problem id double clicking on an item; this makes the program crash with an error message (in debug mode). I hope you find the time to answer my questions. Thank you again. Allos |
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| I would prefer that you ask these questions in the beginner's forum. More people will help you there. One is: how can I return the string of a terminal leaf of the treeview by clicking on it? From my example tutorial Case EVENT_GADGETACTION
Local Node:TGadget = SelectedTreeViewNode(MyTreeView)
PRINT NODE.TEXT
Local s:String=String(Node.Context)add the print line and you will see the text from the tree displayed.The double clicking bug has been reported. It may have been fixed w 1.18. I have not tried it yet |
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| thank you assari, I will try again allos |
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| This is a superb resource ASSARI. Just what I've been looking for. Thanks for all your efforts. |
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| I have got some questions about listboxes: 1) How do I change their background color? 2) Can I set the listbox, so it does not create a horizontal slider bar? |
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| Grisu, 1) Think it can't be done and is a bug. Button colours Gadgetcolour The problem in the first link still seems to occur so not sure about Skid's comment about it being fixed in the next update. P.S. For 2) your guess is as good as mine. There's a 'style' parm but not documentation on what to set it to. P.S. It might be better to ask these in the normal forum. It fills this tutorial thread and, also, it could be missed. |
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in your tutorials you don't mask your iconstrips ... looks not that nice. i recently figured out how to mask them. perhaps this is useful for your tuts. IncBin "icons.bmp"
Local IconStrip:TIconStrip= LoadIconStrip (MaskPixmap(LoadPixmap("incbin::icons.bmp"),255,0,255))
SetGadgetIconStrip(tree, IconStrip) |
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| thanks S.B. thats a nice tip. |
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| Any chance you would consider making the MAXGUI tutorials into a PDF so that they could easily be read on non-net connected PCs and easily printed out? |
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| Thanks Assari! Edit: Please add the: TEXTAREA_WORDWRAP TEXTAREA_READONLY ...to your textarea tutorial! |
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| excellant stuff, I really enjoyed going through your tuts I second making a pdf so that we could download it :) Good job ! |
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| Wow - great tutorials! I just bought maxgui and this is a boon. Thank you. |
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| @Assari: I'm currently writing an maxgui app and have the problem that the listboxes I use start flickering a lot when I change the selected icon or start resizing the app window itself. As you have far more knowledge of bmx, could you test my app if you have some time? I really want this app to be perfect when released and I don't know if this is a bmx bug or can be corrected via event hooks. I dislike giving away the app on the forums, as I still have to discuss some legal issues regarding the cover art and data presented inside. Thus it would be nice if you could check it privately. P.S.: Your e-mail box at hotmail is full! |
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| Check your email. |
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| I did, now check yours.. :) Thanks! P.S. Running the app maxed maybe best to see the effect more often. |
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| Good job, Assari! Any possibility of continuing with the more advanced topics, such as pointers, interfacing with external libraries and such? Thanks, Russell p.s. I also second the idea of creating either a pdf or an encapsulated html structure (so everyone with a browser could see it offline). |
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| This is a great collection of tutorials! Thanks especially for helping me to understand how the whole hooks and events stuff works. |
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| Wow Asarri, this is great stuff, almost want to but the gui lib just to go through the tuts :). Probably will do soon, as I think I'll have a need for maxgui soon :) |
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| Excellent Work. Very well done! |
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| Assari, bless you for writing these tutorials! I was *this* close to giving up hope for this IDE I was working on.... |
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| Good tutorials, thank you for taking the time! |
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| These tutorials are a life-saver! Thanks assari. |
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I didn't see a rule about resurrecting. But I have a question. You talked about Tabbers in Tutorial 11. What does the Select EventData()do? I tried it in my program but it didn't seem to work well, I replaced it with an Select SelectedGadgetItem(WindowTabber); Case 0;and that worked much better. |
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| Generally resurrecting is frowned upon but this is a sticky so it doesn't really matter. From the tutorial : When a user click one of the tabs, a EVENT_GADGETACTION event will be triggered by MaxGUI. We then need to check the event's eventdata by using the EventData() function. When the user clicks the first tab, EvenData() returns zero and when the user clicks the 2nd tab, EventData() returns 1. It's going to be difficult to explain eventdata clearer than that. Without seeing what you have done in your program it's difficult to say what is different or why it is not working. How about adding a post to the MaxGUI forum with some sample code and asking why eventdata isn't returning what you think it should? |
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| Ah, I see, its only returning the needed information when I select the tab, so when I use a gadget, and go back to the same tab, it won't display it until I select the tab. |
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| Hello, New to the board. I was trying to follow your tuts but I got stuck on the first one! I copied and pasted the code from tut 1 and went to compile and run. It fails with message "Identifier 'TGadget' not found". Do you know how I could fix this? |
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| You have to have MaxGUI. |
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| Ahhh, thank you. I bought the module and it works now. Thank you. |
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| @Assari, if you are still around. The latest version of MaxGUI (1.16) needs a 'ViewRoot' specifically created : <edit> and, of course, import maxgui.drivers for each if the SVN version of MAXGui is used. |
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| An excellent series of tutorials. Thankyou. |
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| Thank you for the tutorials, very helpfull :) |
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| Great Turorials! |
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| Just to repeat what others have said but, these really are great tutorials. Great pacing, detail and opportunities for you to try things yourself. |
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| Can't access http://www.2dgamecreators.com/maxgui/ at the moment. |
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| Perhaps a moderator/admin can unsticky this thread? |
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| http://web.archive.org/web/20110301203341/http://www.2dgamecreators.com/maxgui/ |
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| Great tutorials mate |
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| The Links is dead! |
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| The webarchive link 3 posts up is still working, also, this is pretty informative: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/BlitzMax/Modules/MaxGUI/MaxGUI and of course the examples from the [blitzmax path]/mod/maxgui.mod/doc/ folder |
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| Hey guys! I accessed web.archive.org and re-printed all the pages of the tutorial from 'assari' in .pdf format. I uploaded it to my animation/VFX company website, but I can't let it be there forever... So, if someone could re-upload to some other host, cloud, I think it would be nice for all of us! Here's the link: http://lstudio.com.br/blitz/The_MaxGUI_Beginner_Tutorial_Series_pdf.zip |
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| Also, I packed the .zip with a snapshot of this post, for future references... who knows... |
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| I've uploaded the archive to our Dexterity Design website hosting as well via my blog, as that's not likely to be going anywhere soon so an alternative download site is: http://xerra.dexteritydesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/The_MaxGUI_Beginner_Tutorial_Series_pdf.zip |
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| Cool! Thank you, Xerra! |
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| Very nice help Xerra. Much appreciated! I'm just converting from blitz 2d to blitz max now that it is free. I was one of the guys who bought blitz 2d just as blitz max was coming out! Just a quick question though - do you think it is possible to scroll graphical icons as gadgets? i.e. scroll down a graphical icon list using the GUI gadgets bmax gives you? |
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