Project G# Class Glyphs

[griffindore]

Hi,

I started looking into G# and trying to use it for a current low-proiority project. First off, I must say that it's really nice and slick. I really like all the features that were put into it. I haven't seen a thorough investigation/results on performance, but if it's decent, then this is quite amazing.

That said, I did notice something strange when creating my first G# classes. The first thing I noticed is that creating an abstract class from the creation dialog did not actually set the constructor to protected. Then I used the project option G#>>Change Abstract, and the glyph for the lvclass changed to a green box from the default blue box. I noticed that the constructor was still not set to protected however, so I click the option "Change Abstract" in hopes of undoing what I just had done. This time, the glyph of the lvclass changed from a green box to a green frame of a box. Good news is that the constructor was not set as protected like I had expected in the first place.

But now I'm confused over the green box glyph and the green frame glyph. It seems to me that the green box glyph is supposed to be signifying that it's a G# class and the green frame glyph is supposed to signify that it's a G# abstract class. Seems like a couple minor bugs to me, but it's also possible that I don't understand what's supposed to be going on. Your thoughts?

It also seems that the Interface should have a circle glyph based on the classes private data control's icon. Interfaces use the default blue box glyph however.

Regards,

Mike Lyons

[Mattias_Ericsson]

Hi,

Yes, green filled boxes are G# classes and green framed boxes indicate G# abstract classes (only difference is that Create method is set to protected scope instead of public). Static classes get a light green color and native lvclasses could be set to gray or native blue (G# options). This way it is quite easy to see the difference if there are classes made by other toolkits in a mixed environment.

I just tested but can't repeat your problem and we haven't got any reports regarding this. G# is quite heavily used and I really think we would have found this problem before else. However, I might suspect that you might have another toolkit installed that also attempt to update the class icons whenever there is a change in the project environment and there might be a "race" between that toolkit and the G# IDE. Could you please check if you have another toolkit installed that might hook into the project environment?

Thanks,

Mattias

[griffindore]

Hi Mattias,

I was a little concerned that might be the case. I do have Endevo GDS installed. Maybe that's causing the problems. I'll do a little more investigation.

Regards,

Mike