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line drawing with 4.X versions of BR
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:48 pm
by Rick Graham
with GUI ON the line draw characters supported by drawline.bmp and drawsunk.bmp are either too small or too large depending on which GRAPHIC_LINEDRAW option is chosen.
Are there morer than 4 GRAPHIC_LINEDRAW options available?
Has anyone modified the .bmp files to produce medium sized line draw characters?
Rick Graham
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:15 pm
by gordon
Are you referring to the thickness of lines?
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:16 pm
by Susan Smith
Rick,
One other idea is to create a background graphic and plot your captions and data on top of it. I do that for certain things when I can't get the look I want from the BR "raw materials". It might take some tweaking to get the proportions you want, but with BR 4's ability to display graphics on the screen - either in a particular position or as a full-screen background - you have even more options.
-- Susan
Drawline
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:12 pm
by GomezL
ON = A thin line (The windows line used by tabs & other controls).
RAISED = Fat lines, that look Raised (Drawline.bmp)
SUNKEN = Fat lines, that look sunken. (Drawsunk.bmp)
I am not sure when "ON" became the thin lines, but I really like them!
When you start implementing 2D controls, they all use "Thin Lines", it looks strange to combine the old Drawline with the new 2D controls.
Our approach to GUI was to "Re-write" components, basically one at a time until we reached out goal (all GUI), we are probably 95% there now.
Your example is begging for a GRID!
Until then, you can try something like this:
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00003 LET Orig_Gui$=Env$("GUIMODE") !:
EXECUTE "CON GUI OFF"
10 PRINT "YOUR PROGRAM GOES HERE"
00315 EXECUTE "CONFIG GUI "&Orig_Gui$
This will FORCE GUI OFF, and then restore it to it's original setting.
Re: line drawing with 4.X versions of BR
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:05 am
by gordon
I 2012 I shut down the ADS automotive product (for the most part). However there are still some customers that I maintain under Business Rules Corp. They are slowly going away and I am not soliciting any new customers. That being said the application has been substantially converted to GUI but there are programs that were either incompletely converted or not converted at all. My "solution" has been to let all such programs run with GUI OFF but to preserve the GUI MODE across calls. Fortunately, we always supported either mode when converting.
I have recently noticed that there are some confusing anomalies relating to GRAPHIC_LINEDRAW settings. If you specify anything other than RAISED or SUNKEN BR uses the default which is RAISED with GUI OFF and THINSUNK (or THIN ) with GUI ON. Unfortunately THINSUNK and THINRAISED are not supported with GUI OFF.
My problem is the switching from GUI ON to GUI OFF and the associated different linedraw defaults for selected programs is disconcerting and hokey. I have found that I'm better off using SUNKEN across the board.
One other thing I would emphasize is the need to specify FONT Lucida Console for a fairly uniform look between GUI ON and OFF. I also want to reassert that in 4.3 client server, these files go on the server in BR server directory.
Now I was wondering if anyone had developed a thinner image drawsunk.bmp file. If so please speak up.
Re: line drawing with 4.X versions of BR
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 7:14 am
by GomezL
We have played with DrawLine, and attached I have some of the results we came up with.
DrawLine.bmp is what we ended up finding to be our "Best Result".
There are two Drawline_Thim samples.
Re: line drawing with 4.X versions of BR
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:27 am
by John
Here's the one I use - but I don't actually use it. I believe it was designed to assist me in identifying which part was which.
Re: line drawing with 4.X versions of BR
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 8:23 am
by gordon
After reviewing the variants provided by ACS and CLS I have selected the attached renditions of drawline and drawsunk.
Drawline is activated by GRAPHIC_LINEDRAW RAISED. This version provides a modern flat appearance instead of raised.
Drawsunk is activated by GRAPHIC_LINEDRAW SUNKEN. It gives a decent sunken appearance which is thinner than the original drawsunk, although it is not as thin as the GUI ON native thin sunken lines.
The selection between the two should be based on the other attributes of your legacy application running with GUI OFF.
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One other critical note. I have found that on many workstations, specifying FONT Lucida Console provides Lucida Console captions, but the data entry text is Terminal or some other font. The way to get both captions and data entry text to be Lucida console is to specify two font statements as follows:
FONT Lucida Console
FONT 3DFONT=Lucida Console