Posts by DecSoft

Hello Edunt,

I think you need a Timer control. Once you "active" the spinner, start a Timer who wait for certain seconds to "deactive" the spinner and stop by itself.

Hello,

What about the "Hide" and "Show" actions? The Spiner are in an HTML control that can be hide/show using that actions. What is the point you can't get working Ade?

Hello,

OK. I will look into coding it into the CSS.

Remember we can include CSS files in our applications (from the app's files manager) and also the "Inline CSS" application's option. In both cases with can add additional CSS code to be applied, in addition to the CSS rules we can directly set in many of the controls.

BTW, how do you make controls semi-transparent? Is that possible? I have a drop down and a container that is going to hold images. I want to make them both a tiny bit transparent to allow the background to show through for a nice design touch. How would I do this?

Probably the "opacity" CSS rule can apply here? Take a look here.

I also need to know how to include a bunch of images in a container and allow the user to scroll/swipe the container to see more of the images and vice versa. How do I do this?

We probably can use a Container, an HTML control or a Report control. Probably the Container is not the best option if the image list can change in runtime. The HTML control offer a little more of control for runtime images, but probably the Report control can do the trick. So please, take a look at the Report control help and the "Report*" samples Mike.

Lastly, I am studying the dropdown selection app sample, but I just cannot seem to wrap my head around how to make the dropdown list of items? In my case, they need to be like: Football, Baseball, Hockey, MMA, Karate, etc and I need the dropdown list to allow the user to select one, which will then show different graphics in the container based on the choice they make.

The DropDown control (like the Select, MultiSelect, etc.) are based in Arrays variables. We can set the items in designtime by using the DropDown's "Items" variable from the object inspector. We can also set the DropDown items in runtime (add, modify, delete items, etc.) by modifying the "Items" variable. When an item is clicked the DropDown "ItemClick" event are fired, as you can see in the DropDown sample.

Help is greatly appreciated. I am reading all the documentation, looking at the tutorials and videos and trying to learn how to program in App Builder. It's a bit different than I am used to.

I am really liking your software!

Thanks Mike. Take your time to read the help and try with the samples. I think before we go ahead with any development we must be ready with certain concepts, actions, controls, etc. If have any further question don't hesitate to post in this forum: open a new thread so we maintain the questions and possible answer in a separated and useful way.

Hello,

I am referring to the designer, not the code editor. Good working UNDO and REDO is critical for designing GUIs since mistakes are made and UNDO is a great way to correct them.

Mike

The "Undo" is already supported by the AB designer, however, the "Redo" is quite complex Mike. Believe me or not, an environment like Delphi (with more than 20 years of history) has not a "Redo" option in their designer. I want to take a look (again) and put this in the TODO list, however, I really can't promise a "Redo" action quickly, since they appear to me very complex to implement. At least this is was I remember from the past (when a possible "Redo" action are planned).

Hello Mike,

About the first question, we can specify images in various ways into an Image control. We can use the object inspector and then choose the Image property/variable to select a computer image file.

We can also open the app's files manager (see the App menu) and then choose an image from the appropiate tab. Then we can use the "app path" of such file for the Image property/variable.

In these both cases the image are copied into the appropiate place when the app is compiled. We can also specify an URL (not an app relative path) for the Image property/variable of an Image control.

About how to set an app background, probably the best way is to use the "background-image" CSS rule. We can set it for the entire application or just for one or more app's views. Take a look at the below thread for more information:

https://www.decsoftutils.com/support/viewtopic.php?id=160

Hello,

We must to differentiate between the designer and the code editor. The first one have an "undo" button, which allow us, basically, to undelete a previous deleted control in the designer. We have no redo here at this time. The code editor have also their own undo history and here we have a redo option too.

I am not sure if you experiment some unexpected behaviour since I can view here the expected one Mike.

Hi to all,

Thanks for your kindly words Ade. :)

Hello Ade,

I am not sure if can understand very well. You mentioned certain CSS classes (from the Bootstrap CSS and the FontAwesome frameworks) but I am not sure what you wanted exactly, since you can copy the HTML control which declares the spin...

Can you please explain me a little more? Thanks!

You're welcome. Sorry for the inconveniences Samuel. :)

Hello Samuel,

Please, "re-check" the app's options. Some releases before I made certain changes that cause the loss of Cordova's options. Since the BAT files are well generated here (using the last release) probably the problem is what I say with the options. So check the options (generate "config.xml", generate "Android" BAT), save the application and compile it again.

Tell me if this works or you continue having problems.

Hello,

I just sent you a private email.

Mike

Alright.

Hello,

The demo shown some nag screens and include certain messages in the created applications, but there are not limited by time nor features, so anyone can take a look at the entire software capabilities. Currently there is only one license and they allow us to use the program for personal (non profit) and commercial (profit) applications too.

I can apply some discount if you ask me privately, however, I am also an small indie developer Mike, not a big company at all.

Hello,

Most of the Apache Cordova plugins are free with licenses that allow us to use even in commercial projects without problems. In fact anyone can develop Cordova's plugins and then sold it, there is no problem with that. Anyway, Mike, take your time in order to test App Builder. There is no limit in time nor features, so you can take a look by yourself before decide to go ahead with a license.

Hello,

I looked at the Cordova sample and all I see is that it is accessing the cordova plugin found in the options -> plugins folder.

Not sure I understand the concept? Don't I need to install the plugin I want to use in the right place to access it?

For example, I am going to require the ability to access a phone's camera to capture video and also chat at the same time in an upcoming project. There are cordova plugins for that. I downloaded the plugins and ... now what?

Mike

Since you set the custom plugin ID in the application's options (look at the Cordova tab -> Custom plugins) we no need to do anything more but use the plugin Javascript API. App Builder includes in the "config.xml" and ".bat" files the appropiate stuff to inform to Apache Cordova we want to use certain plugin, and then such plugin are automatically downloaded and included in our application.

Hello,

I also saw your neo plugins - are those used by app builder? I am all about owning as many features as the software will allow! Tell me more about your plugins and how they work with app builder.

I then looked at VisualNeo - what a blast from the past!!! I remember that software decades ago. Are those plugins compatible with your software? Did you take VisualNeo and create a similar software that outputs HTML5?

That is so cool.

Mike

My NeoPlugins are intented to be used in VisualNeo 4 and 5. They cannot be work in App Builder since the programs play in very different leagues: Win32 and HTML5. I am using VisualNeo from more than ten years ago and then start to develop plugins for VisualNeo.

Right now I have published and well supported a total of 58 plugins with more than 1100 actions inside. VisualNeo also develop NeoAppBuilder (which also produces HTML5 applications) and inspired me in the creation of my own App Builder more than one year ago.

Everybody can get more information about my VisualNeo plugins at: http://www.neoplugins.com/