"Windows API Wrappers Reference" help file from Jose Roca ... idea for the 3.61!

Jean-pierre Leroy · May 14, 2012, 09:20:10 AM

Hi Paul,

Now that FireFly 3.60 works only with the Include collection created by Jose Roca, could it be possible to add in the Help Menu as well as in the top toolbar a button to have a direct access to the help file WinApiHeaders.chm made by Jose Roca.

My idea is that you could probably replace the "Win32 API Help" by the "Windows API Wrappers Reference from Jose Roca" which is much more complete and extensive ? just my 2 cents.

Is-it a reasonable request for the next update ?

Thanks,
Jean-Pierre

Haakon Birkeland · May 14, 2012, 06:09:40 PM

Yeah, Jose's work is a benchmark resource!

Theo Gottwald · May 15, 2012, 03:13:14 PM

There are also additinal helpfiles from Jose. Maybe even a small submenu that is connected to a folder in the firefly-dir would be a good idea. Then new files from Jose can just be dropped into that folder.

Rolf Brandt · May 16, 2012, 03:08:31 AM

I agree to that. Meanwhile I had added Jose's helpfiles to FF3's tools menu.

Rolf

Klaas Holland · May 17, 2012, 07:12:10 AM

Thanks for the idea Rolf.

Jean-pierre Leroy · August 03, 2012, 04:31:33 AM

Hi Paul,

Do you think you could include this new functionality in the final release of 3.61 ?

Thanks. Jean-Pierre

Paul Squires · August 03, 2012, 09:15:23 AM

I should be able to do that. Actually, I will ask Jose if he doesn't mind me distributing his Help files with the standard FireFly package. That would make it easier for users to get up and running with his functions.

I was investigating trying to get all of his functions into the FireFly functions library. It was not as easy as I had hoped because there was no structured way to capture the text from his help files that would work well. I should investigate that issue again.

Paul Squires · August 03, 2012, 09:17:36 AM

I have logged this request into my bug tracker. Issue: 0000819 Access Jose's help files from the FireFly Help menu

Rolf Brandt · August 03, 2012, 09:20:52 AM

Quote...there was no structured way to capture the text from his help files

I had a look into this also to put some of Jose's wrappers into the function library. To do it manually would be an awful tedious job. But it would be great to have!

Rolf

José Roca · August 03, 2012, 03:47:12 PM

Paul, you can distribute them with FireFly.

These are the ones currently available:

WinApiEaders
ADO28 (includes ADOX)
GDI
GDI+
IExplore (Internet Explorer)
ODBC
Scripting
VisualStyles
WinHTTP51
WMI
SQLite (Partial)

Other are in the work such WUI (Windows User Interface), MSXML and National Language Support.

Michael Stefanik · August 03, 2012, 03:52:00 PM

Quote from: TechSupport on August 03, 2012, 09:15:23 AM
I should be able to do that. Actually, I will ask Jose if he doesn't mind me distributing his Help files with the standard FireFly package. That would make it easier for users to get up and running with his functions.

Since the use of his headers isn't optional any longer, I think that would be a good idea. I know I just created an Include subdirectory under the install directory, copied them all there and then updated the configuration to point to them. If that was done automagically by your installer, all the simpler. You might want to consider a stand-alone installer package that you could make available that just includes his header files as well, and have a method to download and install from the menu. That way if/when he makes changes, you could make that easily available to folks without having to re-download Firefly or wait for the next build to be released.

José Roca · August 03, 2012, 04:50:16 PM

The new version of the headers and help file are available in my forum:
http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php?topic=4558.new#new

I can't upload them there because of size constraints, but Paul can download them and host them here.

José Roca · August 03, 2012, 05:04:26 PM

I have posted an help file for my new SQLite classes, as well as some examples, at:
http://www.planetsquires.com/protect/forum/index.php?topic=3161.new#new

I'm not an expert in SQLite. In fact, it is the first time that I have used it. Just had an idea to make its usage simpler and this is the result. Hope it will be useful. It is a work in progress and open to improvements, suggestions, etc.

José Roca · August 03, 2012, 05:07:07 PM

These are other help files available. Paul is free to move them to a more suitable place.

Ado and AdoX

José Roca · August 03, 2012, 05:10:17 PM

GDI and GDI+