Difference between revisions of "Gestinux util"

Revision as of 17:04, 4 November 2014

Gestinux_util is an utility package containing visual and non-visual components.

It is the base of Gestinux and it allows even quicker developments.

Currently, up to Gestinux 1.1, it was designed as a subset of Gestinux : sources and translation files are located in subdirectories of the main Gestinux directory.

The version 1.2 of Gestinux (in development) uses a new version of Gestinux_util. The package can be installed anywhere with its own translations, and can be used for other applications.

Database Non-Visual components

They are only for database connection and management.

Currently based on Zeos Dbo components, with some methods added to create (and update) table structure from the datamodule.

Gestinux uses only descendants of TZConnection, TZQuery and TZTable.

Other midleware, specially the interface provided with Lazarus are said to be faster. One bad point is that components are specific to only one DBMS, and not following DBMS versions quickly enough. However, if someone wants to develop the same functionnalities and compare, he is welcome !

Visual components

Currently these components are based on LCL Controls. In the future, we plan to base them on CustomDrawn visual components, as soon as these components will be available, to enable portability on Androïd.

All these visual components are enabling dynamic translation of their captions and other texts.

We plan also to manage text orientation (LTR/RTL) automatically.

Display only components

TGMainMenu : a descendant of TMainMenu with automatic translation of captions and hints of all menu items, from the language file.
TGPopupMenu : a similar descendant of TPopupMenu
TGPageControl : a descendant of TPageControl with automatic translation of captions and hints of tabsheets, from the language file.
TGPanel and TGEntryPanel
TGLabel
TGDbGrid
TGNavButtons : a set of buttons, similar to DbNavigator to manage table data.
TGButton and TGSpeedButton

Data Entry components

These components are containing a label and an entry component.

Others

TGFrame

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 It is the base of Gestinux and it allows even quicker developments.
-Currently, it is a part of Gestinux, and sources are located in one of it's subdirectory. In the future, it could become more independant.
+Currently, up to Gestinux 1.1, it was designed as a subset of Gestinux : sources and translation files are located in subdirectories of the main Gestinux directory.
+The version 1.2 of Gestinux (in development) uses a new version of Gestinux_util. The package can be installed anywhere with its own translations, and can be used for other applications.
 == Database Non-Visual components ==
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 == Visual components ==
-All these visual components are enabling dynamic translation of their captions and other texts. They should also enable soon text orientation (LTR/RTL) automatically.
+Currently these components are based on LCL Controls. In the future, we plan to base them on CustomDrawn visual components, as soon as these components will be available, to enable portability on Androïd.
+All these visual components are enabling dynamic translation of their captions and other texts.
+We plan also to manage text orientation (LTR/RTL) automatically.
 === Display only components ===
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 * [[TGEdit]]
 * [[TGEditButton]]
+* [[TGFileEdit]]
 * [[TGDateEdit]]
 * [[TGPeriodEdit]]