by AB-Software (4 Submissions)
Category: Custom Controls/Forms/Menus
Compatability: VB Script
Difficulty: Advanced
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
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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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PADDING: 3px;
FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
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border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);
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AB-Software - VbEclipse Project
http://www.ab-software.com
Freeware Version 0.8.97
All 32-bit MS Windows Operating Systems
(95/98/NT/2000/XP)
NEW UPDATE AVAILABLE
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.
PLEASE VOTE IF YOU LIKE IT :o)
FEATURE HISTORY
Version 0.3.x (December 2004)
+ / -
Feature / Bugfix
Description
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Perspectives
Different sets of layouted views (forms) to switch
between different perspectives. Perspectives descripe the
presentation of theire views.
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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.
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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
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Folders
You can define an active view for each folder.
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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.
