Outline · Standard · [ Linear+ ] VCF Demo's, Suggestions for small demo projects

[ddiego]

In Ray's note to me (http://vcf-online.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=117 ) he mentioned the lack of demo's, which is a valid criticism, IMHO. We have a list of examples, but these do not neccessarily "show off" the VCF as they are meant specifically as learning tools, not too show off the framework.

So I am wondering what people think would make some good "demo" projects, something to show off the VCF. A small project that demonstrates some really cool features, or some other compelling features of the VCF.


Please respond with suggestions here.

[vortic]

I'm not sure the following suggestion would be considered "showing off" special VCF capabilities, but it would be nice for showing the breadth of VCF basic control capabilities in a single app.

It would be nice to have a single app that essentially showed all the basic controls and a couple of nice 'customized' controls such as the calendar/clock example. This could easily be implemented with an app that had a TabbedPages as it's main control. On each page you could have a variety of controls that interacted with one another through a variety of events. For example, on 1 page you could have a TextControl to enter text, press a button that copies it to another control, and have some checkbox controls to change color of text, etc. I think you get the picture of what I am describing.

This may be relatively(?) easy to put together by cutting and pasting from existing examples. There would probably be quite a bit of event handling code to write though.

Although the end result may not be anything spectacular for showcasing one thing in particular, I think it would be nice to see a bunch of VCF capability at one time.

[marcello]

I agree with tinkham.

In my opinion the first question a new user has in his mind is:
how do they look controls in this library ?
do they work ?

I understand that there is still a lot to do, but they essentally already work.

All the strenght point of the vcf library, reported in the article:
http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschanne...l?tid=24&tid=46
DevChannel | Introducing the Visual Component Framework

will be what a user would like to quicly see in some program.

[marcello]

I presse the wrong button and sent the post without finishing it !

That's also one of the reasons I made the
vcfAllProjects.dsp
to be automatically updated/created with a script.

If a new user wants to look deeper into VCF, it will go there, testing all the projects.

But again few programs like the one delined by tinkham is what we need.

Another example could be an example showing off the ListTable control.
If I remember well it is a control similar to an Excel table.
This or any other project showing off the Event handling mechanism of VCF and its possibility would be good.
AFAIK Jim worked on it, but then it stopeed, maybe because of other more urgent things to do, like the porting to OSX which I agree has the first priority.

[Chris]

Hi...

I was wondering if maybe the library could have a small/medium size demo app like the JDK SwingSet, or like wxWindows has. Something showing off the different visual components, with a CODE tab on the side so that a newbie, like my self, can easily start using the library.

I use my self as an example, I have just strarted trying to use VCF, and like it a lot, but I am having a hard time finding which is the class for each visual component.

Some are self explanatory eg CommandButton, but others are not as easy. For example I saw the TitleBorder but have still to find a control that takes the border so that I may simulate a JPanel with a TitleBorder to get a GroupBox for controls!

The kind of demo like the swingset would be an incredible advantage, show off the visual components and maybe more, and also it becomes like a working tutorial.

Well enough for now.

cheers,
Christian