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06/20/2017

09:11 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

After doing some investigation for native 4GL behavior for direct manipulation I've made conclusion the key actor her... Eugenie Lyzenko

06/19/2017

08:58 AM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

Understand this requirement, I think it can be implemented easily using that the reverse proxy can be recognized by a... Sergey Ivanovskiy

08:04 AM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

Please make sure that we can run in reverse proxy mode AND/OR in direct access mode (our current approach). Many ins... Greg Shah

08:45 AM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> > > > Your example revealed a flaw in tooltip management. I need to review the hiding ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

08:01 AM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

The highest priority is getting the local spawning working with port mapping. Please work on that first and we will ... Greg Shah

06/18/2017

01:26 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Actually, 2683 and 3236 can be developed as a one task due to interdependency of these tasks on the reverse proxy con... Sergey Ivanovskiy

01:13 PM Feature #3236: implement port range support for the web client's embedded web server

Greg, please help to understand the remote case. There are two cases: 1) the web client is spawned locally and 2) the... Sergey Ivanovskiy

06/17/2017

09:37 AM Bug #2765 (Closed): find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Greg Shah

09:46 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Greg Shah wrote:
> Please merge to trunk
Branch @2765b@ was merged to trunk as revno @11153@ then it was archived. Eugenie Lyzenko

09:24 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Please merge to trunk
Greg Shah

06/16/2017

05:46 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Eugenie Lyzenko wrote:
> The testing completed. Failed test was run in standalone mode. The results can be seen in @... Constantin Asofiei

05:45 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Eugenie Lyzenko wrote:
> Do we have to do any other custom configuration for the large ... Eugenie Lyzenko

04:49 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
>
> > So starting @ChUI@ regression testing.
> How is this going?
All tests are OK e... Eugenie Lyzenko

03:52 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Eugenie Lyzenko wrote:
> Small adjustment for font name and size for @Windows10@ theme. Now the large scale GUI appl... Constantin Asofiei

03:46 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu Maxiniuc wrote:
> Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> > What does it display? Empty text?
> The 1st window is label... Constantin Asofiei

06/15/2017

07:29 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Next step is: please do some testing in some complex screens of the large GUI applicatio... Eugenie Lyzenko

03:08 PM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

The plan is to add @X-Forwarded-Host@ support by web server to span web client correctly in the presence of the rever... Sergey Ivanovskiy

03:00 PM Feature #2683: reverse proxy implementation

Created new branch 2683a for this task. Sergey Ivanovskiy

09:10 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Should I skip this differences and add to to the "thumb redrawing" redmine issue?
Yes, so long as the difference... Greg Shah

09:08 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

OK, I'll figure out which part is necessary. Overall I'm going to stick to the plan
@ThinClient.trigger@ initial ... Stanislav Lomany

08:53 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

I'm not sure. Some of the processing in @ThinClient.trigger()@ is to properly enable recursion, which you said canno... Greg Shah

08:33 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

Basically my question is if the client-side trigger processing in @ThinClient.trigger@ necessary for its counterpart ... Stanislav Lomany

08:26 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Wrap BrowseWidget.getRows with the code from ThinClient.trigger.
What do you mean by "wrap"? I prefer not to du... Greg Shah

05:54 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

Greg, am I right that server-side ROW-DISPLAY trigger should be called in that way?
# Wrap @BrowseWidget.getRows@ wi... Stanislav Lomany

08:44 AM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> What does it display? Empty text?
The 1st window is labeled as "Window 1 has parent". L... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

06/14/2017

05:22 PM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Note that if we strive for 100% authenticity server-side ROW-DISPLAY doesn't make sense because we need to redraw t... Greg Shah

05:17 PM Feature #3275: improve browse support

Some notes on what can be done during ROW-DISPLAY processing for multiple rows:
# Browse itself and other widgets ar... Stanislav Lomany

04:21 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu Maxiniuc wrote:
> ... the title of the parent-less window from your testcase should be @unknown@ since their ... Constantin Asofiei

04:16 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu Maxiniuc wrote:
> > * @WindowTitleBar@ - missing history entry
> I was about to revert this one too, but I s... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

12:41 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Code Review Task Branch 1818a Revision 11160
As mentioned before, this is really good work. Some feedback:
1. ... Greg Shah

10:34 AM Feature #3280: implement editor methods

Code Review Task Branch 3279a Revision 11160
1. The SUB-TYPE members added to @ComboBoxWidget@ need javadoc.
2.... Greg Shah

06/13/2017

04:04 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Ovidiu, please let me know what is left with this task.
I am not aware of anything el... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

12:31 PM Feature #2676: implement the equivalent to configurable support for a windows theme

Ovidiu, please let me know what is left with this task.
What I'm aware of in 2676a rev 11170:
* @WindowLayout@,... Constantin Asofiei

03:16 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> > We just do not need to provide separate font files within GUI package.
> OK, so your ... Eugenie Lyzenko

12:48 PM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Eugenie Lyzenko wrote:
> The @Hotel GUI project@ will use the aliases even they are not directly included into @dire... Constantin Asofiei

11:27 AM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Constantin Asofiei wrote:
> Eugenie, the changes in 2765b rev 11163 are OK; please add a history entry to @FontDetai... Eugenie Lyzenko

05:58 AM Bug #2765: find proper freely licensed replacements for the MS Windows OS fonts

Eugenie, the changes in 2765b rev 11163 are OK; please add a history entry to @FontDetails@ and also a question about... Constantin Asofiei

11:08 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> If browse-specific state in the screen buffer can be changed then we need to make sure that the screen buffer is se... Stanislav Lomany

10:40 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> But in the case trigger contains user interactions or alert boxes, we have to somehow detect that we have an intera... Greg Shah

10:08 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Can we iteratively execute the trigger on the server side, without down-calls to the client?
At first look I thin... Stanislav Lomany

09:33 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> iterative ROW-DISPLAY triggering (note that most of browse attributes, like DOWN or SCREEN-VALUE (not readable), a... Greg Shah

06/09/2017

01:42 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11159@.
Added new class to @../ui/client/gui@ pac... Eugenie Lyzenko

07:32 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

I like your plan. Greg Shah

08:47 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

This is the rest of file list dropping implementation plan. Because all real event are happening on the client side(g... Eugenie Lyzenko

10:14 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Technical details for the summary from note 20.
The @.ext-hints@ looks like this... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

09:37 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

As with revision 11159 of branch 1818a, FWD looks for a special @.ext-hints@ file (I can optionally move the content ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

09:12 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

My bad, REFRESH doesn't trigger ROW-DISPLAY, only search by key. I'll clean up records. Stanislav Lomany

08:34 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

All ROW-DISPLAY rules will be stored in updatable item 30.
We should decide if we want to support 1. iterative ROW... Stanislav Lomany

06/08/2017

06:09 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11158@.
Reworked to resolve the notes for @Droppa... Eugenie Lyzenko

04:26 PM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> What is the effort to get this to match the weird Progress behavior?
For a start:
# PageDown for some cases shoul... Stanislav Lomany

04:13 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> I think it's not worth to exactly duplicate this behavior until (if) we come to the point when it will be necessary... Greg Shah

06/06/2017

10:42 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

Greg, I took a look how ROW-DISPLAY behaves when multiple new rows are displayed at once:
# Mouse wheel scrolling: i... Stanislav Lomany

06/02/2017

04:09 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

> I don't think I can load the provided .wrx in P4GL test box.
You probably can. They were originally created in ... Greg Shah

03:39 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Greg,
Apparently the .wrx files hold some information that is not available in the source code (.p or .w files). ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

05/31/2017

06:30 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

> The attribute DROP-TARGET is implemented as part of the BaseConfig. The default value is false. Only widgets that s... Greg Shah

08:56 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11157@.
This change introduced the suggested appr... Eugenie Lyzenko

05/30/2017

04:10 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The testcases repo has been updated to revision @1613@.
The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to rev... Eugenie Lyzenko

09:32 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The task branch @1834a@ has been updated for review to revision @11155@.
The server side implementation for direct... Eugenie Lyzenko

05/29/2017

03:43 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Constantin,
The events are fired from server-side, from an @AssociatedThread@. It was not @registerAsyncThread()@... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

03:30 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Ovidiu Maxiniuc wrote:
> Constantin,
>
> I am working on the runtime of this issue: the asynchronous callback to ... Constantin Asofiei

03:17 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Constantin,
I am working on the runtime of this issue: the asynchronous callback to event procedure.
I tried to... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

01:04 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Greg Shah wrote:
> I prefer a different approach. We find many different cases where there is some arbitrary subset... Eugenie Lyzenko

09:43 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

> So my plan is to introduce new class say DroppableWidget extending GenericWidget and change inheritance for BrowseW... Greg Shah

09:31 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Point to discuss with @DnD@ inheritance to be implemented.
The widgets that must support file list dropping:
@Bro... Eugenie Lyzenko

05/27/2017

09:08 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Fixed previous note for committed branch revision(@11153@). Eugenie Lyzenko

09:04 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The testcases repo was updated to revision @1612@.
Testcase to illustrate possible usage of the file dropping feat... Eugenie Lyzenko

05/26/2017

01:50 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

> We might want to use another marker annotation instead of LegacyResource - maybe FWDResource, which extends LegacyR... Greg Shah

01:37 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Greg Shah wrote:
> Our objective here is to provide a *clean* extension to the 4GL syntax to setup a new timer. Som... Constantin Asofiei

12:36 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Greg Shah wrote:
> In #3262 we will be implementing full COM automation support. The OCX part is not being done and... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

11:57 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

In #3262 we will be implementing full COM automation support. The OCX part is not being done and we don't plan to do... Greg Shah

10:57 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Greg Shah wrote:
> If we have to hand-edit the 4GL code to replace the OCX stuff it is OK. Typically, this is only ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

10:37 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

If we have to hand-edit the 4GL code to replace the OCX stuff it is OK. Typically, this is only used in a small-ish ... Greg Shah

10:32 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

I really don't want to maintain a control-frame widget or any of the other OCX/ActiveX nonsense.
Our objective her... Greg Shah

09:35 AM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

Ovidiu, the rules to determine the program where the @PSTimer.tick@ procedure exists is:
# use the @<ctrlframe:name>... Constantin Asofiei

09:25 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Greg Shah wrote:
> > 2. The second stage...
> >
> > * Check the conversion/runtime support for file list related ... Eugenie Lyzenko

06:41 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

I like the plan.
> Make it to be abstract for widget, meaning single implementation method for all affected widget... Greg Shah

09:46 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Created task branch @1834a@ from trunk revision @11152@. Eugenie Lyzenko

08:42 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

After additional investigation and documentation checking I came in to the following implementation plan:
1. First... Eugenie Lyzenko

05/25/2017

04:21 PM Feature #1818: implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

I was not intending to actually provide any ActiveX support here. The idea was to implement a pure Java equivalent f... Greg Shah

02:49 PM Feature #1818 (WIP): implement a timer service to replace the PSTimer OCX

The conversion works fine at this moment. At least to support @PSTimer@. I added an almost complete runtime support: ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

10:05 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

> Should I do that?
Yes, you should fix this. Do let me know if there is some negative implication or something e... Greg Shah

10:02 AM Feature #3275: improve browse support

I've removed @ROW-DISPLAY@ triggering from @draw()@ and noticed some flickering. Turned out that historically we do n... Stanislav Lomany

08:47 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The testcases repo was updated to revision @1611@.
Two new testcases have been added to illustrate drag-n-drop fun... Eugenie Lyzenko

05/24/2017

06:10 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

New investigation results:
1. The data drag-n-drop functionality is limited in @Progress ABL@. Currently it works ... Eugenie Lyzenko

07:14 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Greg Shah wrote:
> Hmmm. I was wrong about the list of widgets the drop operation applies to. Also, the GET-DROPPE... Eugenie Lyzenko

07:13 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Greg Shah wrote:
> I agree with your assessment so far. On a positive note, it seems that the full range of possibl... Eugenie Lyzenko

06:52 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

Hmmm. I was wrong about the list of widgets the drop operation applies to. Also, the GET-DROPPED-FILE(index), NUM-D... Greg Shah

06:44 AM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

I agree with your assessment so far. On a positive note, it seems that the full range of possible data transfer capa... Greg Shah

10:41 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

From the GUI perspective we need to:
1. Implement selection attribute drawing(selection box) for all selectable widg... Eugenie Lyzenko

05:06 PM Feature #3275: improve browse support

I found that we have problems if a value cannot be displayed using column format. In ChUI error message is posted eve... Stanislav Lomany

05/23/2017

04:02 PM Feature #1834: implement direct manipulation (drag and drop)

The testcases repo was updated to revision @1610@. While working on drag-n-drop implementation we need to investigate... Eugenie Lyzenko

12:05 PM Feature #3280: implement editor methods

Greg Shah wrote:
> Code Review Task Branch 3279a Revision 11158
> Generally, this is quite good.
Thank you for the... Ovidiu Maxiniuc