WizTools - 1.x Plugin Development Toolkit

[JavaWiz]

1. should I be using the dll from the first post in this thread or the latest one?

Best to use the lastest version. Can be found at: http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/WizUtilities (WizDLLs.zip)

2. The clear selection list button doesnt seem to do anything in the demo is that something you are aware of?

It seems to work for me ok. The trick is to make multiple selections in the 2nd list (by clicking several different items). Pressing the button, clears the selected items in the list.

3. sharpdev gives a single warning:
Warning CS0414: The private field 'WizPlugin.ExamplePopup.mNeedsRendering' is assigned but its value is never used

That very well may be, the sample popup is just that an example that shows how to construct a popup, this sample really does not do anything, the variable could be commented out.

[idkpmiller]

Hi JavaWiz,

I seem to have hit a known issue with your helper that stops me from using it, I go round in circles :confused:

The issue is when I try to inherit your helper it says I need to create a Sub New() which I do. Then I have the error which says

First statement of this 'Sub New' must be a call to 'MyBase.New' or 'MyClass.New' because base class 'WizUtilities.WizUiHelper.WizUiList' of 'GameZone2008.WizPlugin.WizUiHelperPlugin' does not have an accessible 'Sub New' that can be called with no arguments.

If I do a google for the error I get this link that shows I go round in circles...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833898

Any way you can help here?

Cheers

[JavaWiz]

Hi JavaWiz,

I seem to have hit a known issue with your helper that stops me from using it, I go round in circles :confused:

The issue is when I try to inherit your helper it says I need to create a Sub New() which I do. Then I have the error which says

First statement of this 'Sub New' must be a call to 'MyBase.New' or 'MyClass.New' because base class 'WizUtilities.WizUiHelper.WizUiList' of 'GameZone2008.WizPlugin.WizUiHelperPlugin' does not have an accessible 'Sub New' that can be called with no arguments.

Any way you can help here?

Cheers

Can you send me a sample of the code? I'll try to mod the DLL so it can be used by VB. I'll download the MS Visual Studio VB Express and see what I can do.

[idkpmiller]

Thanks for the offer Jacawiz; However

After lots of tinkering I have got it to work, YAY!!!

It has to have been the worst translation from c# to vb.net I have ever seen sharp Develop ever do

Only thing left to do is sort out why the ExamplePopup isnt working then I can start playing...

Still have over a week of hols left so hopefully enough time to get GameZone v2 out

Cheers

[JavaWiz]

Good luck. If you come across any gotcha's with VB, maybe you can post here and I will put in my notes along with the DLLs help files. Also, if you have the example plugin, or something similar, I'd be glad to include it in the distro for others to learn from.

[idkpmiller]

I will change the names to match your sample then upload the VB sample there are alot of gotchas when converting the c#.

Ok back to my issues, I have the full sample plugin working and now I am trying to work with it to migrate GameZone.

First problem is the same as I said in a separate thread, the buttons can only be added using a string which is not very flexible for dynamically created buttons.

example code:

Dim captions As String() = {"Connect String", "Main Menu"}
cmdButtonList = New WizUiButtonList(skinHelper, "ButtonList", captions)
ctlMgr.AddControl(cmdButtonList)

now say a GameZone user has enabled emulators 1, 5, 8, 11 and made up his own say custom1.
He therefore only wants to see those buttons for the emulators he currently has and not for all the others, see the problem?

I used to use the GBPVRUIelements by McBain which I could use the code below to add buttons.

If ePSXeENA = True Then
menuButtons.Add("ePSXe")
End If
If MameENA = True Then
menuButtons.Add("Mame")
End If

This was possible as the buttonlist was an arraylist.

Any ideas how this type of thing can be acomplished?

Cheers

[idkpmiller]

Ok my solution is to use a string not an arraylist and do the following:


Dim sourceString As String = "Connect String,"
sourceString = sourceString & "Install Dir,"
sourceString = sourceString & "Plugin Dir,"
sourceString = sourceString & "Hide List1,"
sourceString = sourceString & "Main Menu"
Dim splitstring() As String = sourceString.Split(",")

captions = splitstring

cmdButtonList = New WizUiButtonList(skinHelper, "ButtonList", captions)
ctlMgr.AddControl(cmdButtonList)



This works fine

[JavaWiz]

Dim sourceString As String = "Connect String,"
sourceString = sourceString & "Install Dir,"
sourceString = sourceString & "Plugin Dir,"
sourceString = sourceString & "Hide List1,"
sourceString = sourceString & "Main Menu"
Dim splitstring() As String = sourceString.Split(",")

captions = splitstring

cmdButtonList = New WizUiButtonList(skinHelper, "ButtonList", captions)
ctlMgr.AddControl(cmdButtonList)

Or, at least in C# you can
ArrayList captionArray = new ArrayList();
captionArray.Add("Install Dir");
captionArray.Add("Plugin Dir");
...
string[] captions = (string[]) captionArray.ToArray(typeof(string));

You may also be able to do something similar in VB.

[idkpmiller]

OMG that works great! I tried looking everywhere for that routine, cheers for that.

[idkpmiller]

First off the andatory, Happy New Year!


JavaWiz if you have time could you post a routine to handle files in your list I am trying to add two properties @text which I use to store the filename without the path and extention (shortname) and @tag which I am using to store the longname this includes the pathand extention.

I would like to display just the shortname but upon selection etrive the shortname and the longname selected.

I am having issues getting this to workas I want it, do you have any example snippets of code that would show me how the uilist works better with multiple properties

Thanks