Window Form development

jlsmi3th · Post by **jlsmi3th** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:00 am

I am brand-new to Zeus. I have written and executed several small programs and I am currently developing an application that will be screen-GUI and I have not been able to find where Zeus has a screen template. I've gotten there via brute-force but I hope there is a better method. Help!

Post by **jussij** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:26 am

I have not been able to find where Zeus has a screen template.

The is no GUI form template within Zeus

I've gotten there via brute-force but I hope there is a better method.

But Zeus does provide a method to define you own code templates

For example in the default document type there is the following template defined:

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$MacroExcute<$zdzscript\file_create.lua|!0>
$ExpandTemplate<$zdzexample\filenew.tpl>

What this template does is first execute the macro file_create.lua found in the zScript directory and if that succeeds, run the template expansion using the filenew.tpl found in the zExample directory.

So for example lets use the code I found here as the start of a WinForm application template:

http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/20 ... tml?page=4

It can split this code into two files and save to the newly create zTemplate in the Zeus folder as follows:

The WinApp1.cs File:

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/* I save this to the 'c:\Program Files\Zeus\zTemplate\WinApp1.cs' file */

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.ComponentModel;

public partial class MyWinApp: Form
{
    public MyWinApp()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    // -------------- Event Handlers --------------------------
    private void fileNewMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("You clicked the File -- New menu.", "The Event Information");
    }

    private void fileOpenMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("You clicked the File -- Open menu.", "The Event Information");
    }

    private void fileSaveMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("You clicked the File -- Save menu.", "The Event Information");
    }

    private void fileSaveAsMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("You clicked the File -- Save As menu.", "The Event Information");
    }

    private void fileExitMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("You clicked the File -- Exit As menu.", "The Event Information");
    }

    private void submenuMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("You clicked the submenu.", "The Event Information");
    }

    protected void toolBar_ButtonClick(Object sender, ToolBarButtonClickEventArgs e)
    {
        // Evaluate the Button property to determine which button was clicked.
        switch (toolBar.Buttons.IndexOf(e.Button))
        {
            case 1:
                MessageBox.Show("Second button.", "The Event Information");
                break;
            case 2:
                MessageBox.Show("third button", "The Event Information");
                break;
            case 3:
                MessageBox.Show("fourth button.", "The Event Information");
                break;
        }
    }

    protected override void OnClosing(CancelEventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Exit now.", "The Event Information");
    }

    private void button_Click(Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Thank you.", "The Event Information");
    }

    // -------------- End of Event Handlers -------------------

    public static void Main()
    {
        MyWinApp form = new MyWinApp();
        Application.Run(form);
    }
}

The WinApp2.cs File:

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/* I save this to the 'c:\Program Files\Zeus\zTemplate\WinApp2.cs' file */

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.ComponentModel;

public partial class MyWinApp: Form
{
    Label label = new Label();
    Button button = new Button();
    TreeView tree = new TreeView();
    //ImageList imageList = new ImageList();
    //static String imageFolder = "Images" + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar.ToString();

    // -------------- Images declarations ------------------------------------
    //Image newFileImage = new Bitmap(imageFolder + "newFile.bmp");
    //Image openFileImage = new Bitmap(imageFolder + "openFile.gif");
    //Image saveFileImage = new Bitmap(imageFolder + "saveFile.bmp");
    //Image printImage = new Bitmap(imageFolder + "print.gif");

    // -------------- End of Images declaration ------------------------------------

    // -------------- menu ------------------------------------
    MainMenu mainMenu = new MainMenu();

    MenuItem fileMenuItem = new MenuItem();
    MenuItem fileNewMenuItem;
    MenuItem fileOpenMenuItem;
    MenuItem fileSaveMenuItem;
    MenuItem fileSaveAsMenuItem;
    MenuItem fileMenuWithSubmenu;
    MenuItem submenuMenuItem;
    MenuItem fileExitMenuItem;

    // -------------- End of menu ------------------------------------

    // -------------- Toolbar ------------------------------------
    ToolBar toolBar = new ToolBar();
    ToolBarButton separatorToolBarButton = new ToolBarButton();
    ToolBarButton newToolBarButton = new ToolBarButton();
    ToolBarButton openToolBarButton = new ToolBarButton();
    ToolBarButton saveToolBarButton = new ToolBarButton();
    ToolBarButton printToolBarButton = new ToolBarButton();

    // -------------- End of Toolbar ------------------------------------

    // -------------- StatusBar ------------------------------------
    StatusBar statusBar = new StatusBar();

    StatusBarPanel statusBarPanel1 = new StatusBarPanel();
    StatusBarPanel statusBarPanel2 = new StatusBarPanel();

    // -------------- End of StatusBar ------------------------------------

    private void InitializeComponent()
    {
        this.Text = "My Windows Application";
        //this.Icon = new Icon(imageFolder + "applicationLogo.ico");
        this.Width = 400;
        this.Height = 300;
        this.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen;

        //imageList.Images.Add(newFileImage);
        //imageList.Images.Add(openFileImage);
        //imageList.Images.Add(saveFileImage);
        //imageList.Images.Add(printImage);

        // menu
        fileMenuItem.Text = "&File";

        // the following constructor is the same as:
        //   menuItem fileNewMenuItem = new MenuItem();
        //   fileNewMenuItem.Text = "&New";
        //   fileNewMenuItem.Shortcut = Shortcut.CtrlN;
        //   fileNewMenuItem.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.fileNewMenuItem_Click);
        fileNewMenuItem = new MenuItem("&New",
                                       new System.EventHandler(this.fileNewMenuItem_Click), Shortcut.CtrlN);

        fileOpenMenuItem = new MenuItem("&Open",
                                        new System.EventHandler(this.fileOpenMenuItem_Click), Shortcut.CtrlO);

        fileSaveMenuItem = new MenuItem("&Save",
                                        new System.EventHandler(this.fileSaveMenuItem_Click), Shortcut.CtrlS);

        fileSaveAsMenuItem = new MenuItem("Save &As",
                                          new System.EventHandler(this.fileSaveAsMenuItem_Click));

        fileMenuWithSubmenu = new MenuItem("&With Submenu");

        submenuMenuItem = new MenuItem("Su&bmenu",
                                       new System.EventHandler(this.submenuMenuItem_Click));

        fileExitMenuItem = new MenuItem("E&xit",
                                        new System.EventHandler(this.fileExitMenuItem_Click));

        mainMenu.MenuItems.Add(fileMenuItem);
        fileOpenMenuItem.Checked = true;
        fileMenuItem.MenuItems.Add(fileNewMenuItem);
        fileMenuItem.MenuItems.Add(fileOpenMenuItem);
        fileMenuItem.MenuItems.Add(fileSaveMenuItem);
        fileMenuItem.MenuItems.Add(fileSaveAsMenuItem);
        fileMenuItem.MenuItems.Add(fileMenuWithSubmenu);
        fileMenuWithSubmenu.MenuItems.Add(submenuMenuItem);
        fileMenuItem.MenuItems.Add("-"); // add a separator
        fileMenuItem.MenuItems.Add(fileExitMenuItem);

        toolBar.Appearance = ToolBarAppearance.Normal;
        //toolBar.Appearance = ToolBarAppearance.Flat;
        //toolBar.ImageList = imageList;
        toolBar.ButtonSize = new Size(14, 6);

        separatorToolBarButton.Style = ToolBarButtonStyle.Separator;
        newToolBarButton.ToolTipText = "New Document";
        newToolBarButton.ImageIndex = 0;
        openToolBarButton.ToolTipText = "Open Document";
        openToolBarButton.ImageIndex = 1;
        saveToolBarButton.ToolTipText = "Save";
        saveToolBarButton.ImageIndex = 2;
        printToolBarButton.ToolTipText = "Print";
        printToolBarButton.ImageIndex = 3;

        toolBar.ButtonClick += new ToolBarButtonClickEventHandler(this.toolBar_ButtonClick);

        toolBar.Buttons.Add(separatorToolBarButton);
        toolBar.Buttons.Add(newToolBarButton);
        toolBar.Buttons.Add(openToolBarButton);
        toolBar.Buttons.Add(saveToolBarButton);
        toolBar.Buttons.Add(separatorToolBarButton);
        toolBar.Buttons.Add(printToolBarButton);

        tree.Top = 40;
        tree.Left = 20;
        tree.Width = 100;
        tree.Height = 100;

        label.Location = new Point(220, 40);
        label.Size = new Size(160, 30);
        label.Text = "Yes, click the button";

        button.Location = new Point(220, 80);
        button.Size = new Size(100, 30);
        button.Text = "Click this";
        button.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button_Click);

        statusBarPanel1.BorderStyle = StatusBarPanelBorderStyle.Sunken;
        statusBarPanel1.Text = "Press F1 for Help";
        statusBarPanel1.AutoSize = StatusBarPanelAutoSize.Spring;
        statusBarPanel2.BorderStyle = StatusBarPanelBorderStyle.Raised;
        statusBarPanel2.ToolTipText = System.DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();
        statusBarPanel2.Text = System.DateTime.Today.ToLongDateString();
        statusBarPanel2.AutoSize = StatusBarPanelAutoSize.Contents;
        statusBar.ShowPanels = true;
        statusBar.Panels.Add(statusBarPanel1);
        statusBar.Panels.Add(statusBarPanel2);

        this.Menu = mainMenu;
        this.Controls.Add(toolBar);
        this.Controls.Add(tree);
        this.Controls.Add(label);
        this.Controls.Add(button);
        this.Controls.Add(statusBar);
    }
}

Now I can create this WinApp template in the C# Document Type (i.e the templates section) and define this as the text for the template:

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$MacroExcute<FileNew|!0>
$ExpandTemplate<$zdzTemplate\WinApp1.cs>
$MacroExcute<FileNew|!0>
$ExpandTemplate<$zdzTemplate\WinApp2.cs>

When I execute this template I will get two new files filled with the code found in the two files defined about.

Now I can build these into an executable using this command line:

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csc /target:winexe /out:WinApp.exe WinApp1.cs WinApp2.cs

And execute the exectable produced:

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17/06/2008  16:25             8,192 WinApp.exe

Cheers Jussi

PS: If you add the template item to Default Document type it will alwyas be displayed

jlsmi3th · Post by **jlsmi3th** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:52 pm

Thank you for the prompt response.

Since I am building one applet only, I think brute-force is my preferred method.