Dialog Editor Enhancements

[jed]

I'd like to mention a couple of enhancements for the dialog editor:

1) The Cut, Copy, Delete and Lock/Unlock toolbar buttons do not have a disabled bitmap so when they are not enabled, the spaces on the toolbar where they are displayed appear empty.

2) I would like to see anchors supported by the designer

3) It would be nice if I could resize all dialogs for a theme.

4) It would be really great if it was possible to specify a "base dialog" so that customisations could be made to this one dialog and they would appear in all dialogs being used.

5) If I go to close the Dialog Editor and I have made changes that haven't been saved, I don't get prompted to save changes before exiting. Have lost many changes because of this.

6) There is a bug when invoking the dialog editor by selecting another dialog while a current dialog is being modified. It raises an AV sometimes.

7) If the theme has an icon/bitmap displayed (such as bluewave) at the top left, it'd be nice if I could apply the ICON associated with the project (on the Summary Information page) to be this icon for all dialog pages in the install. (this wouldn't really be required if point 4 was implemented).

I am currently using IA3 so apologies if these are already in IA2005.

Congrats on an excellent installation application.

cheers,
JED

[sinan]

Thanks for your suggestions!
IA 2005 fixes point 6 below - the AV.
As the others, we will try to do our best for them in new releases

[vitaliy@2brightsparks.com]

Hi,
Adding custom bitmaps to each of the forms increases the installer size tremendously. This is probably because each of the bitmaps compiles into separate resource, whic causes multiplication of the same bitmap inside the installation. In case of web installation this becomes crucial, as web installation is dedicated to be small. At the same time it's always nice to have a beautiful UI with pictures.
If there is a way to assign one bitmap to many "Image" contlols (like it is in any programming IDE) then it would be great.
Overall - very good software.

[MichaelNesmith]

The compression should do a good job of eliminating redundancies. Make sure your dialog bitmaps are as uncompressed as possible for it to work well.

[christ23]

Hi developers of IA,

will there be an update of the dialog editor "object rules" part soon ?

I think it is very depressive trying to get some "enable/disable next button" logic when using more than 1 control and trying to implement that via the object rules and one or more (hidden) condition-labels.

This should be made better, to something like :
"if (controlA.text<>' ' && controlB.text<>' ' && controlC.text<>' ') then ... "


Any updates planned in the future ?

[FrancescoT]

Thanks for the hint.

I have forwarded it to dev team.

Regards

[damjan]

I have to bring up this thread again. Is there anything new on how to create more useful conditions in dialog object rules (.miaf files).

It would be really great to create AND and OR statements even if directly modifying .miaf files.

Regards, Damjan