Hey all,

As Christmas is fast approaching, I thought it would be a good time to send my EWB wishlist. At the moment, EWB is my main development environment. Other than writing my REST services in Delphi, most of my development is with EWB now.
The following wishlist items apply to the client side only, as I'm not using the server side stuff.

What other ideas do you all have?

Cheers,
Paul

Existing - modifications
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TButton :
   Background color
   Mouse over color
   Clicked or Selected color

TDataSet :
   Client side filter capabilities :
   Filter property
   Filtered property
   maybe some FilterOptions

   Design time Index definitions
   So at design time we could define one or more Indexes that EWB would maintain automatically.
   The Find method could also choose the correct index if the NearsetMatch is true.

TPlugin :
   Add the ability to send header params with the component.

Drag and Drop
   Drag and Drop capabilities on all applicable components.

TCheckBox :
   Ability to set the alignment of the checkbox. So the caption can be to left or the right of the check box.
   Ability to include ssIndeterminate in the cycle when clicking.


New Components
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   Menu Button
   Preferably with the main button part and the drop down menu part both clickable. So the main button part can be the default item being done, and all the other items on a drop down menu by clicking the down arrow.
   With all the normal button functionality, so it looks like a button and matches other buttons on your form.

   HTML Editor
   With full editing capabilities, including pictures with alignment.

   File Uploader
   A component that allows uploading of one or more files to the server as a TStream or as base64content without using THTMLForm.

   TNumberEdit - edit component for numbers
   Able to specify how many decimals, allow a format property so we can specify to format with thousand separator, currency symbol etc. Min and Max properties.

   ReCaptcha control.

Paul

I like your Christmas Wishlist.   I don't use the EWB Server side either, and have a bias and want more client side stuff too.

TButton - look at the Binary - I put code there for EWB 2 - works in EWB 3 to - for a TColorButton.  It does what you need.

TDataset - filtering - I like this - right now I duplicate TDatasets to do this kinda stuff.  Still waiting for the Sort method to be fixed.

TPlugin - great enhancement


Drag and Drop - I know this is on the Road map ... I absolutely vote for this one too

TCheckBox  - I would use these too.


New Components
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   Menu Button - don;t need this as much.

   HTML Editor - need this badly - but I think what would be better is is we had a wrapper around an existing JS Library like ... https://richtexteditor.com/   (I think this one is good and cost wise reasonable.)

      A really nice HTML editor is a full time product in and of itself......


   File Uploader  - I havent had a need yet.... but sounds good.

   TNumberEdit -  Erik's Nice Controls have this. ($50)


   ReCaptcha control - Erik's Nice Controls have this too.

Merry Christmas - I'm leaving out cookies and hot chocolate.....

Hi Walter,

If I had to choose just two, it would be the TDataSet improvements and the HTML Editor. I had a look at the one you suggested and yeah, it looks really good. Very full featured. I'd certainly be happy with this.

Merry Christmas all.

Cheers,
Paul

I would like to see:

* Drag and Drop
* TreeView (which I believe Tim is working on).
* HTML Editor (which I believe Tim is working on).
* TCheckList - list box that has check boxes.
* TPlanner grid.
* Ability to call stored procedures and functions in EWB.

= Steve

Paul Coshott wrote:

> If I had to choose just two, it would be the TDataSet improvements and the HTML Editor. I had a look at the one
> you suggested and yeah, it looks really good. Very full featured. I'd certainly be happy with this.

There are several ways this could be done.

A pretty option would be to have a visible flag on each data row.  But that's up to Tim.

I've done the double TDataSet method, it's in my nice controls.  It lets you specify which fields to search, starting the string, or in the middle.  But it's not ideal.

A poor man alternative I've used is to cache the string I'm about to use for LoadRows(), and just reload from memory it as necessary and then cycle through the dataset eliminating entries I don't want to display.  This sounds slow, but is actually quite fast even with a large number of rows, because Tim's code for loading the JSON is very good.

Erick
EWB Programming Books and Component Library
http://www.erickengelke.com

I create animated GIFs and use them on websites so I'd like to see support for animated GIFs in EWB.

= Steve

Steve Gill wrote:

> I create animated GIFs and use them on websites so I'd like to see support for animated GIFs in EWB.

Animated GIFs display fine using TImage.  I use animated gifs in several TGrids.  So are  you asking about creating animated GIFs in EWB, as I've never tried that.

Erick
EWB Programming Books and Component Library
http://www.erickengelke.com

erickengelke wrote:

<< Animated GIFs display fine using TImage.  I use animated gifs in several TGrids.>>

Really?  I tried it a couple of days ago and it didn't work.  Let me try it again.

= Steve

Steve Gill wrote:

erickengelke wrote:

<<<< Animated GIFs display fine using TImage.  I use animated gifs in several TGrids.>>>>

<< Really?  I tried it a couple of days ago and it didn't work.  Let me try it again.>>

Thanks for your help Eric bit it doesn't work for me.  If I put the same GIF on a web page using my website building software it works fine, but it doesn't work in EWB using TImage.

Now if I use the URL property of TImage to reference the GIF it works fine.  But that's not what I'm after.

= Steve

On 1/7/2022 7:22 PM, Steve Gill wrote:
> Now if I use the URL property of TImage to reference the GIF it works fine.  But that's not what I'm after.

Can i ask why this is does not work for you ?

URL would simply be name of the external file of the project and does
not need to be some external url reference.

Raul