Re: xFx GUI Plugin bits

[Stuart Booth]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:27:36 -0000, "Paul Barrett"
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>i.e. customizing the grid and the properties page

Question for you on the Properties page. Do you want something that
uses the same tree based interface as my apps all do?

You can do this either as a complete Windows Form that is completely
of your own construction, or you can add some special pages that work
in the Property Tree style I've used.

The former is a very simple example. I could even set it up to
customise the COM port, as I assume you'll want to do.

The latter isn't that much more difficult really and allows you to
take advantage of some common code I hoisted out of Hub and Viewer for
customise certain parameters. The property pages that are common
across Hub, Viewer and the GUI runtime shell, as well as in the
SlimServer Connector plugin are all implemented in the xFx DLL,
xAPUI.DLL.

Actually, there's quite a few things to show you, such as setting up
the XML configuration file (not the app.config file) that the
application settings are now saved to, and saving/loading details to
this and into the property pages.

Let me know your preferences for your plugin properties form and I'll
knock up a very, very simple example plugin that shows everything you
need.

S
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