KODA Parser : Easy GUI creation by direct .kxf file read

[matwachich]

DEPRECATED: see this new UDF

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Hi!

Here is a function that parses .kxf (KODA Form) file and directly generates the GUI for your program.

For now, it is beta (buggy and incomplete).

Supported controls: label, button, input, edit, checkbox, radio, list, combo, group, pic, icon, dummy, controlGroup, slider, progress, date, monthCal, treeView (no items), listView (no items), tab/tabSheet, menus (main, popup)

Supported options: font, colors (text and background), cursor, hint (tool tip), visible, enable/disable, checked/unchecked, resizing

TODO and bugs:

• GUI size bug
• Other controls (image list, IP, tool bar, status bar, tray menu, avi, up-down, graphics, COM object (really useful?))
• Hotkeys (accelerators)
• KXF text encoding problem

https://github.com/matwachich/koda_parser

 

Update (30/10/2019):

• To have a correctly sized GUI, you must manually pass it's size to the function (get the right GUI size from KODA generated code)
• Workarround for text encoding problem: kxf file is read as ANSI before being loaded by XMLDOM

Update (05/12/2019):

• Added ability to specify parent GUI (parent GUI set in KODA is now ignored)
• Added helper functions to: set accelerators, get GUI handle, get control ID/handle, set/get user variables
• Fixed TabSheet control ID not set
• Fixed control resizing not set

Update (12/12/2019):

• Fixe window visiblity control

Update (17/12/2019):

• Control groups acces: Added ability to directly acces child controls of: Group, ControlGroup, Tab and TabSheet (functions _KODAForm_CtrlChildrenXXX)
• Script Breaking: renamed _KODAForm_GetItem and _KODAForm_SetItem to _KODAForm_GetUserData and _KODAFOrm_SetUserData. UserData are now isolated from other GUI controls in the $oForm object
• Also: some minor internal tweaks in object items naming

 

KODAParser-beta6.zip

Edited February 1, 2020 by matwachich
deprecated

[Zedna]

Please explain what is this good for, thanks.

I can't imagine any useful use case.

[matwachich]

OK

Let's see a standard workflow for developping a GUI application using KODA:

• You create your GUI with KODA
• You export and past the GUI creation code onto your script
• You Run, it works
• You (I) many times need to make some manual tweaks on the KODA generated code, and I forget (or cannot) mirror these modifications on KODA
• After that, I need to modify the GUI, so I do it on KODA, repeat steps 1 and 2, but here, the manual modifications are lost! And you need to redo them

With this function:

• You create your GUI with KODA
• Embeed the .kxf file with your script
• And every time you modifiy your GUI on KODA, you don't have to touch/modify your script!
• Also, your custom modifications are done after calling the function, so you don't loose them or need to redo them

[Zedna]

Thanks for detailed explanation.

I use Koda actively and I have the problem you described too, so I can understand your goal very well.

Edited October 31, 2019 by Zedna

[Skeletor]

Very useful, I too have this issue. Well done on providing something that will wake the KODA community up and update the program.

[dmob]

I have same headache... thanks for sharing.

[matwachich]

New version with some fixes.

[matwachich]

Update.

See first post.

[matwachich]

Update with ability to list all children controls of a group, controlGroup, tab and tabSheet

[satanico64]

Goodjob matwachich. Thanks.