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Popplaceholder class is a simple but useful class ;) Most applications
are fully configurable nowadays, offering wide range of various
parameters for further user modifications. Not only functions options
or forms of behaviour are configurable but often most of program
strings can now be changed by the user. The latter applies to
internet (communication) related programs mostly, (e.g. AmIRC,
AmTelnet, YAM and so on...) which needs to send various string to
other different people. So they allow you to define e.g. own welcome
phrase or kick reason sentence. Because e.g. your welcome phrase for
e.g. John and phrase for Mary will differ only with the name, most of
these strings uses so called placeholders, to describe varable,
dynamically modified string part (e.g. mentioned receipient name).
For example "On %d, %u wrote:". The "%d" and "%u" ares just the
placeholders, program will replace on use by for instance mail date
and the sender's name (of course placeholder can look like " name" or
"%{date}" or "my lovely grandma", but the idea behind remains).
Unfortunately, most programs forces user to know what placeholder can
be user where and which means what. That's kinda user unfriendly
(especially for beginners, or just-users). Instead of forcing them to
type placeholders by hand (in proper syntax!) it would be nicer to let
them pick up what they want from the list of available items. That
both eliminates placeholder syntax problems (unless user 'fix' it
later by hand of course) as well as disallows to use unsupported
placeholder (the above exception applies of course). And here comes
Popplaceholder class. It features the ordinary string gadget user can
type own text in, but it also gives the popup listview, which holds
all available placeholders. User can easily select one from the list
either by double click or by neat Drag&Drop. See the example demo
program for better picture of the class' features.
Popplaceholder is freeware software, but it's copyrighted
© 1999 by Marcin Orlowski <carlosamiga.com.pl>
PS: Yes, I know my english sucks ;)
Software using this class:
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- AmIRC 3
- AmTelnet 2
- OpenURL 3
- Voyager 3
- Golem
Let me know about your!
History
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14.0 (Mon Jul 12 10:15:34 1999)
- initial version
14.1 (Mon Jul 12 13:09:21 1999)
- Added MUIA_Poplaceholder_Copy attribute
- now forwards all list object methods
to internal pop up list, increasing
flexibility
14.2 (Tue Jul 13 19:35:58 1999)
- shortened all these "MUIx_Popplaceholder_#?"
to "MUIx_Popph_#?" for easier programming ;)
- added Drag&Drop feature
14.3 (Wed Jul 14 14:05:34 1999)
- first public release
- wrote autodocs
- added support for existing string gadget
replacements (the fallback scheme looks like:
Textinput -> Betterstring -> original String)
- MUIA_Popph_StringMaxLen is gettable now
14.4 (oops, I forgot the datestamp)
- added support for popup menu when Textinput
subclass is used
- added MUIA_Popph_ReplaceMode attribute
14.5 (Sun Jul 25 19:58:25 1999)
- Popplaceholder is now 2-in-1 custom class
(poplaceholderstr.mcc is now useless and
should be wiped out of your disks)
- added some internal checks to avoid possible
problems with tag/descriptions being longer
than predefined max length
- Popph object is no longer higher than highest
object it uses
- MUIA_Popph_StringType added
- all TI/BS/String attrubutes are now forwarded
to internal string object on OM_SET/OM_GET.
Just talk to Popph as to string gadget
- added PopAsl alike work mode
14.6 (Tue Jul 27 16:09:44 1999)
- MUIA_Version, MUIA_Revision are now supported
- fixed bad enforcer hit "implemented" in 14.5
- MUIA_Popph_Avoid added
- added MUIA_Popph_StringObject, MUIA_Popph_ListObject
14.7 (Tue Aug 31 10:28:35 1999)
- all list methods and attributes are now forwarded
to internal list object. Handle with care.
- public release
15.0 (Sat Nov 06 17:32:28 1999)
- now handles the entry even it's incorrect (e.g.
plain string, w/o separators etc) for easier
debugging (and wider usage ;-)
- added MUIA_Popph_PopCycleChain attribute on
mouse lovers' request (reported by Grzegorz Kraszewski)
- PopPH now correctly handles ASLFR_DrawersOnly, TRUE
case in ASL mode (reported by Troels Walsted Hansen)
- added MUIA_Popph_Title for easy popup list titles
- added single column mode
15.1 (Tue Nov 23 23:25:45 1999) - sponsored by Thorgal ;-)
- fixed MUIA_Popph_Avoid not working correctly
(Mike Carter)
- pop buttons removed from the cycle chain
(MUIA_Popph_PopCycleChain is now FALSE by default)
as MUI offers special hotkey (CTRL-P by default)
for that, and won't break the AdvanceOnCR adventages
(reported by Grzegorz Kraszewski)
- full source code released. Read source.readme for
closer details
15.2 (Sat Nov 27 14:47:34 1999) - sponsored by Thorgal ;-)
- attached popup listview to the string object, to
allow key-driven list navigation (Carlos) (reported
by Mike Carter)
- now uses all string/list related tags given at
Popph creation time while creating internal string
nd list object, to allow use of {I..} attributes
as well (Carlos) (reported by Mike Carter)
15.3 (Wed Feb 02 22:53:00 2000) - sponsored by The Hun
- some attributes were wrongly DoSuperMethod()ed in
OM_GET (Zapek)
- fixed bugs when MUI_NewObject()ing without attributes
(Zapek)
15.4 (Sun Feb 06 18:56:00 2000) - sponsored by HardcoreJunky
- MUI_DeleteCustomClass() was called with a freed pointer
thus nuking when mungwall was running (Zapek)
- public release
15.5 (Thu Jun 29 23:25:18 2000) - sponsored by SilverDream!
- minior tweaks (Carlos)
- public release
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