VbEclipse (docking MDI) New Version 0.8.99

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Version 0.8.99 of the VbEclipse project is available now. Please look at the screenshots. PLEASE VOTE AT https://www.VBCode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=58641&lngWId=1.

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AB-Software - VbEclipse Project

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Freeware Version 0.8.97

All 32-bit MS Windows Operating Systems (95/98/NT/2000/XP)

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A new update of VbEclipse is available.

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DESCRIPTION

The VbEclipse project is a Visual Basic 6.0 implementation of the Eclipse perspectives. It provides a high flexible and complete configurable docking MDI solution with a nice user interface.

At work I'm developing Java with the open source Eclipse 3.0 IDE (see www.eclipse.org). This IDE works with perspectives, which gives the developer different views on his source.

If the developer is simply coding Java, he will do this in the java perspective. This perspective has some views like project explorer, tasks, ... But if you are debugging the source, Eclipse switches to the debug perspective. Here you can see other views like breakpoints, variables or the running tasks.

The user will automaticlly see only the views he really needs for his current work. Cause I like this concept, I was inspired to implement this possibility for Visual Basic developers. And this is also the final goal for this project.

But you can do more with this Control than just create IDE apps. Just have a look at the "VbDoc" example in the download and see how simply it is to work with perspectives and which surplus values you get.

Thanks for your interest on my work.

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FEATURE HISTORY

Version 0.3.x (December 2004)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
+	Perspectives	Different sets of layouted views (forms) to switch between different perspectives. Perspectives descripe the presentation of theire views.
+	Views	Views are representing simple Visual Basic standard forms and could be accessed by a unique view id. Note thar there could only be one view instance visible on each perspective. When the user changes the perspective, no view will be unloaded. Only the position and the visibility of views will be changed. So if the user switches back to the first perspective the layout will not be lost or reset.
+	Folders	Views are layouted on the perspective by folders. The sense of a folder is to provide the ability to show views stacked together with other views. There is only one view visible for each folder. The visible view could be canged by tabs.
+	View Handling	Show, activate and close views on the active perspective by theire id. You can also maximize and restore views / editors.
+	Drag & Drop	Drag a view while press and hold the left mouse button on views caption. If you hold the button a while (500 ms) a focus rectangle will appear. Now you can select an other folder to drop the view by releasing the mouse button. You can also create new folders if you drop the view on the top, left, bottom or right of a folder. The new folder will appear in the relation you drop the view.
+	Office 2003 Color Scheme	This scheme has different color styles for classic, metallic (silver), homestead (olive) and normal (blue) mode.

Version 0.8.33 (January 2005)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
+	New Color Scheme	New Windows XP Color Scheme as a replacement for the Office 2003 Color Scheme.
+	Custom Color Schemes	Developers can set custom colors by IScheme interface.
+	Editors	Open, Activate, Close
+	Folder Captions	Folders now have a caption which shows the name of the open view.
+	Floating Windows	If you drop a view to the outside of the perspective a floating window will apear.
+	Auto Hide Folder Tabs	The folders tabs are invisible if there is only one view on it.
+	Tabs Orientation	For better distinguish between folders and the editor area the following tab orientation were set: The orientation of the folder tabs changed to bottom orientation. The orientation of the editor area tabs changed to top orientation.
+	Editor Tabs Orientation	The orientation of the editor area tabs changed to top orientation.
-	Flicker effects	I reduced the flickering on resize a perspective by a new rendering method.
-	Performence	Optimized Performence on layouting perspectives.
-	Folders	Refresh Layout after remove a maximized folder (fixed).
-	ShowView() Methode	ShowView creates a new folder if perspective has none (fixed).

Version 0.8.91 (30. January 2004)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
+	Folder Caption	New buttons on folder caption to maximize / restore the folder and to close a view.

Version 0.8.92 (31st January 2005)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
+	Folder Caption	Caption button became a hover and pressed style effect.
+	Tabs Navigation	Tabs now have navigation buttons (show previous and next view). The editor area tabs also got a close editor button.
+	Editor Navigation	New perspective methods: NextEditor() + PrevEditor()
+	Floating windows	Set the main window as the new owner of floating windows.

Version 0.8.94

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
-	Floating windows	If you move floating windows to mouse cursor doesn't position at the middle of the folder caption anymore.

Version 0.8.95 (1st February 2005)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
+	Tab Navigation	Auto hide and disable tab navigation buttons
-	Color Scheme	Fixed classic window style.

Version 0.8.96 (2nd February 2005)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
-	Floating Windows	Fixed floating windows bug on closing a perspective and open it again.
+	Perspective Layout	Set folders as floating windows at application startup.
+	Floating Windows	Drop multiple views on a floating window.
+	VbDoc example	New example application "VbDoc" (creates a html documentation of your Visual Basic 6.0 projects).

Version 0.8.97 (4th February 2005)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
-	Perspective Layout	Fixed a bug on switching between perspectives when a view is maximized.
+	Color Schemes	New perspective property ColorScheme to select a color scheme (Windows XP, Office 2003, Custom).
+	Custom Scheme	You can define colors for the custom scheme with different properties in Visual Basic IDE.

Version 0.8.98 (7th February 2005)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
+	Perspective	I made the perspective control alignable so you are able to drop it on a MDI form.
+	Caption Buttons	Caption buttons are drawn like the caption gradients.
-	View Caption	I have fixed the ShowViewCaptions perspective property. Now the view caption won't be displayed if you set this property to false. But the views are still dragable. Just drag it by its tab or double click on a tab to maximize / restore the view. If caption buttons are hidden the view navigation is displayed to close a view.
+	View Caption	I renamed the ShowViewCaptions perspective property to ViewCaptions.
+	View Caption Icon	I have implemented a new property ViewCaptionIcons to show or hide an icon on the left side of the caption.
-	Floating Windows	Floating windows can float over it self and a floating rect will be drawn if you drag a view to the middle of the editor area.

Version 0.8.99 (11th February 2005)

+ / -	Feature / Bugfix	Description
+	Folders	You can define an active view for each folder.
-	Folders	The active view of a folder will be stored if you switch to an other perspective and come back to the first perspective.
+	View Caption	Double click the views caption to undock a view and make it a floating window.
-	Splitter Bars	If you move the main window without to resize it, the drag and drop of the splitter bars were drawn wrong. I have fixed this bug.
+	Comments	I add more comments to describe the methods, but still not all.

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