D / GtkD for SQL Server

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Monday, 21 October 2013 at 22:23:16 UTC, John Joyus wrote:
> 1. When I click the OK button, the message dialog pops-up 
> *after* the main window is closed, though the window.close(); 
> line is after the call to the MessageBox..

that's because the MessageBox class here is implemented as 
another window with an event loop, so it doesn't stop execution.

If you want a message box that stops execution, you should just 
use the regular Windows call

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms645505%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

it is available in D if you do this:

import core.sys.windows.windows;
import std.string : toStringz;
MessageBoxA(null, toStringz("You clicked ok."), toStringz("title 
here"), MB_OK);

(or you can use MessageBoxW and toUTF16z instead of toStringz if 
you need unicode support)

> 2. The controls appear to align to client by default. How do I 
> position them where I want them and with the height and width 
> of my choice.

I just added a new thing called StaticLayout that lets you do 
this:

         auto window = new MyMainWindow();
         auto layout = new StaticLayout(layout);

         auto btn = new Button("test", layout);

         btn.x = 100;
         btn.y = 200;
         btn.width = 100;
         btn.height = 50;


If the only child of the window is a StaticLayout, you can set 
the x,y, width, height on each part of it and it will honor that.

The method registerMovement() btw is the key here. When it is 
called, it calls MoveWindow to inform Windows of the updated 
position. It is called automatically by the function 
recomputeChildLayout(), which by default, also changes the size 
and position automatically.

The new StaticLayout class overrides recomputeChildLayout to call 
registerMovement without trying to change things itself.


(This is new btw becuase I kinda hate doing manual positioning 
and wanted the automatic grid to work first. But then I didn't 
get back to finish the other options when another project took 
over, so there's a lot of minigui.d that isn't quite done, 
including this.)