It would be very nice if the interface editor would accept numbers such
as 4294358890 in the colour selector. This is how it is stored in the
..wbi file, so I copied from my customised TButton to the new one, and
it says it is not a valid integer value.

$FFF6B76A works.

(This does highlight the need for a merge tool again, but I still can't
see an easy way!)

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Matthew Jones

Matthew,

<< It would be very nice if the interface editor would accept numbers such as 4294358890 in the colour selector. This is how it is stored in the ..wbi file, so I copied from my customised TButton to the new one, and it says it is not a valid integer value. >>

This sounds more like an issue with the bulk editing of control interface files.  You can just as easily open the control interface in the IDE and copy the hex value from there instead of directly from the .wbi file.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

> This sounds more like an issue with the bulk editing of control
> interface files.  You can just as easily open the control interface
> in the IDE and copy the hex value from there instead of directly from
> the .wbi file.

The core was I had customised the TButton interface for colors and
corners. Thus I needed to take the old color and put it in the new one.
So I copied the customised .wbi file to a temporary, copied in the new
master one, and opened that in the IDE. Since I no longer have access
to the original in the IDE, I had to grab bits from the original as
text.

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Matthew Jones

Matthew,

<< The core was I had customised the TButton interface for colors and corners. Thus I needed to take the old color and put it in the new one. So I copied the customised .wbi file to a temporary, copied in the new master one, and opened that in the IDE. Since I no longer have access to the original in the IDE, I had to grab bits from the original as
text. >>

You can open *any* control interface file (*.wbi) in the interface editor in the IDE.  It doesn't matter if it's in a different directory or not the one being used by the current project, etc.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

> You can open any control interface file (*.wbi) in the interface
> editor in the IDE.  It doesn't matter if it's in a different
> directory or not the one being used by the current project, etc.

Ah, handy. Thanks.

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Matthew Jones