Share My Creation BasicIDE Suite 4 - Now even further improved

agraham · Oct 13, 2021

I have found a minor bug that I overlooked when adding the fling capability to the editor. It only occurs on one of my five testing devices, a Galaxy Tab A 8, which is why I have only just found it. The bug symptom is that the autocomplete popup window appears as a single line located at the top of the editor rather than being located perched on top of the IME. This is because in the IME HeightChanged event I overlooked changing the position of the popup from the edtSource height to the svFling height. The new code should look as below.

B4X:

Sub IME_HeightChanged (NewHeight As Int, OldHeight As Int)
  ...      
  ' this will sit the dropdown above the IME
  'edtSource.AutoVerticalOffset = edtSource.Height  -  Commented out old line
  edtSource.AutoVerticalOffset = svFling.Height ' new corrected setting
  ...
End Sub

It's odd that most devices don't need this but I guess there is something a bit different in the Samsung but as it's the only Samsung device I have I don't know if it just a quirk of that particular model.

Erel · Oct 13, 2021

Looks amazing. How have you implemented the syntax highlighting?

agraham · Oct 13, 2021

It uses my CodeEditorView control which is a wrap of this project

GitHub - AmrDeveloper/CodeView: Android Library to make it easy to create an Code editor or IDE that support any languages and themes, with auto complete, auto indenting, snippets and more features

Android Library to make it easy to create an Code editor or IDE that support any languages and themes, with auto complete, auto indenting, snippets and more features - AmrDeveloper/CodeView

github.com

which in turn is a thin veneer on top of
android.widget.MultiAutoCompleteTextView;

It's keyword tokeniser was a bit limited so I rewrote it but its only a few lines of code. I haven't posted it as a library but the XML should be reasonably well commented to use elsewhere if required. The jar and xml are in the BasicIDELIbraries zip file. You are welcome to my source codes if you did want a play with it.

agraham · Oct 18, 2021

In adding KVS to BasicIDE to persist some IDE values I overlooked the case for a fresh install without installing over a previous install that already has file permissions. Because of the way that Resumable Subs work waiting for the permission causes both Activity_Resume to run as the wait returns from Activity_Create and then Activity_Pause runs as the permission dialog is shown. As Resume tries to read the KVS values and Pause tries to save them the lack of file permissions causes errors that prevent operation of the BasicIDE. This is now fixed. I'm surprised that apparently none of the down-loaders have encountered this as it is a show stopper for new installs.

A continual problem with BasicIDE over the years has been the poor API to the IME and inexplicable variations in behaviour between different device and soft keyboard combinations when an Activity is paused and resumed with the keyboard open. I have finally thrown in the towel and locked the editor into portrait orientation, though scripts can still support device rotation if required. This allows predictable behaviour on Resume. There are further comments in the Main activity code in the version history and the IME_HeightChanged event.

The Autocomplete Height menu option now has an Auto option that will auto-size the popup window to accommodate the available options, and is scrollable if the number of options exceeds the maximum height available for the popup window.

JesseW · Nov 11, 2021

Upon loading the project, I have an "unknown member: textsize" error on line 5952, shown as line 6 below, in the Script module

B4X:

Sub AsyncInputFile(filepath As String, filename As String, filefilter As String, title As String, Positive As String, Cancel As String, Negative As String, _
            cancellable As String, callback As String, paramsarrayname As String)
    Dim params() As String = BlibGetAsyncArray(paramsarrayname)
    Dim F As FileDialog
    F.TextColor = InputFileColor
    If InputFileTextSize > 0 Then F.TextSize = InputFileTextSize
    F.filepath = filepath
    F.ChosenName = filename
    F.filefilter = filefilter
    Try
        Dim o As Object = F.ShowAsync(title, Positive, Cancel, Negative, Null, cancellable)
        Wait For (o) Dialog_Result(response As Int)   
        input = F.filepath & "," & F.ChosenName
        params(0) = response
    Catch
        params(0) = DialogResponse_Cancel
        input = LastException.Message       
    End Try
    If Blib.CanCall(callback) Then
        Blib.Call(callback, params)
    End If
End Sub

agraham · Nov 11, 2021

Looks like you have an out of date Dialogs2 library

Dialogs2 library - an update to the original Dialogs library

Note the separate download for an updated Dialogs2 class that fixes a bug in the original. I wrote the original Dialogs library many moons ago and it has suffered with age owing to the changes made to Android and B4A over the years despite the administrations of several other people. Although...

www.b4x.com

tech2k · Feb 1, 2022

JesseW said:

Upon loading the project, I have an "unknown member: textsize" error on line 5952, shown as line 6 below, in the Script module

B4X:

Sub AsyncInputFile(filepath As String, filename As String, filefilter As String, title As String, Positive As String, Cancel As String, Negative As String, _
            cancellable As String, callback As String, paramsarrayname As String)
    Dim params() As String = BlibGetAsyncArray(paramsarrayname)
    Dim F As FileDialog
    F.TextColor = InputFileColor
    If InputFileTextSize > 0 Then F.TextSize = InputFileTextSize
    F.filepath = filepath
    F.ChosenName = filename
    F.filefilter = filefilter
    Try
        Dim o As Object = F.ShowAsync(title, Positive, Cancel, Negative, Null, cancellable)
        Wait For (o) Dialog_Result(response As Int)  
        input = F.filepath & "," & F.ChosenName
        params(0) = response
    Catch
        params(0) = DialogResponse_Cancel
        input = LastException.Message      
    End Try
    If Blib.CanCall(callback) Then
        Blib.Call(callback, params)
    End If
End Sub

Did you ever get yours working? I had the same error as you when the IDE opened, updated the library and solved that but I still get the same error about 2/3 of the way through the option to compile and run.

agraham · Feb 1, 2022

tech2k said:
I had the same error as you when the IDE opened,

What error when the IDE was opened and which IDE, the B4A IDE or BasicIDE?

If the error is "unknown member: textsize" when trying to compile BasicIDE see post #7 above. You haven't got Dialogs2 whose FileDialog has a TextSize property. Download Dialogs2 version 1.2 from the link in post #7 below. The one included in the BasicIDELibraries archive appears to be version 1.1 which lacks the FileDialog TextSize property. Sorry, my bad!

tech2k · Feb 2, 2022

agraham said:
What error when the IDE was opened and which IDE, the B4A IDE or BasicIDE?

If the error is "unknown member: textsize" when trying to compile BasicIDE see post #7 above. You haven't got Dialogs2 whose FileDialog has a TextSize property. Download Dialogs2 version 1.2 from the link in post #7 below. The one included in the BasicIDELibraries archive appears to be version 1.1 which lacks the FileDialog TextSize property. Sorry, my bad!

Abraham,

Thank you so so much for that fast reply. Of course it was user error on my part but you pointed me in the right direction. I had previously updated the dialogs2 but somehow missed the jar file when overwriting the old version (only had the correct XML when checking the date modified).

I now have everything compiled and installed on Android 12 pixel 3A XL. A quick check in the designer I could add a panel and stretch it horizontal but could not get it to size vertical. This is also probably a error on my part and I will look at everything close this weekend.

When trying to open a help file from within the app it tells me I need a version of Microsoft edge installed to view. I am able to use my files app and open them in Chrome so I will read through those as well.

I am using b4a v11.2 and my target platform is 30 and think I read something last weekend about needing 28 or 31. I'll look into that some more. I've had success with previous versions of your work that needed the separate help folder and whatnot but you've made many changes in improvements.

Thanks ??

Edit to add : still fiddling with it, it's addictive. Haven't solved the Microsoft edge error for viewing the help within the app but I can resize the panels and it looks like I need to use API 28. I've copied in your scripts after reading more of the new and greatly expanded help files and they are working. Both you and Earl are genius

agraham · Feb 2, 2022

tech2k said:
I need a version of Microsoft edge installed to view.

I did that as automatically opening a browser for help saves the user some steps to select it and I chose Edge as it seems to give the best default rendering for the help. As you have the source then make it open Chrome instead.

tech2k said:
looks like I need to use API 28.

You can switch to MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. There is already some code commented out in Main.Activity_Create but I would now use my ManageExternalStorage class from the project in this link. The project also has the conditonal code in Main.Activity_Create to select the appropriate permission according to the API of the device.

Manage External Storage - access internal external storage >= SDK 30

Google seems intent on dumbing down Android to the point of uselessnes to me. I think of my devices as little computers and I want a proper file system on them, not the limited tortuous things that Google offers and that I don't understand, ContentChooser, FileProvider, ... o_O I'm getting old...

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tech2k · Feb 2, 2022

agraham said:
I did that as automatically opening a browser for help saves the user some steps to select it and I chose Edge as it seems to give the best default rendering for the help. As you have the source then make it open Chrome instead.

You can switch to MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. There is already some code commented out in Main.Activity_Create but I would now use my ManageExternalStorage class from the project in this link. The project also has the conditonal code in Main.Activity_Create to select the appropriate permission according to the API of the device.

Manage External Storage - access internal external storage >= SDK 30

Google seems intent on dumbing down Android to the point of uselessnes to me. I think of my devices as little computers and I want a proper file system on them, not the limited tortuous things that Google offers and that I don't understand, ContentChooser, FileProvider, ... o_O I'm getting old...

www.b4x.com

I changed back to API 28 for the designer, edited source for Chrome to view help and installed A-CHM on my device as well.

Everything seems to be working perfectly now ?

Thanks!!!

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