Release 2019.12.09.01
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Change Release Notes
- Behavior controls raise OnClosing for plugins/controls when application exiting
- Fix for mobile interface sizing
- resized some controls to better optimize screen realestate
- movement panels use color dimming on buttons rather than setting colors explicitly
- keep original themed bg color of the script start/stop button
- Ensure new controls are added to a virtual desktop by verifying the selected index id
- Display controls in the top menu controls tab
- Additional GUI rendering performance improvements from last update
- Top menu can be themed in Options -> Preferences -> Theme
- Fixes to a few controls that didn't render correctly (sound servo, etc)
- More visible checkboxes
- Theme editor displays example during configuration
- updated json library
- Disabled gpu usage on cef rendering
- Theme colors can be edited Options -> Preferences -> Theme
- Uses the stable plugin interface (all plug-ins must be updated to work with this release moving forward
Authors of Plugins to Update The pnlControl has been removed. This means you'll have to edit the designer.cs file for your forms and remove the pnlControl references to use this. For example...
Change: this.pnlControl.Controls.Add(something); To: this.Controls.Add(something);
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The Mobile App dimensions are not saved when saving on my laptop or to the EZ-cloud. Release 19.05.08 works perfectly.
Okay - I'll take a look when I get home tonight and update the beta for ya right away when I see what's going on
No problem - I see what it is. I'll get a build for you in a few hours
I re-used this thread and updated the details for the release. Thanks for everyone's help to get it rock'n over the weekend!
@DJ: This version is not firing the Windows Form Event's:
private void MainForm_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e) private void MainForm_FormClosed(object sender, FormClosedEventArgs e)
neither the base class methods:
protected override void OnFormClosing(FormClosingEventArgs e) protected override void OnFormClosed(FormClosedEventArgs e)
when you close ARC although is firing when you close the project.
If you want to test/debug: https://github.com/ppedro74/ezrobot-playground/tree/master/plugins/MiscUtilityPlugin
I added a DebugToFile method to log the events to a file on User's desktop.
That's curious... I'll take a look!
Wow - it's never called Closing() on application exit... Check this out. All Application.OpenForms are raised with event OnClosing automatically if you close the application with Application.Exit(). But, to prompt the user if they should exit the application, you have to put a dialog prompt in OnClosing. So if you use Application.Exit() at the end of OnClosing(), the OnClosing() even is called again! The exit trace of .Net is severely flawed. The only way to overcome this is by never calling Application.Exit(), and instead closing the main form. And in the main form's OnClosing, loop through each child form and close it.
One would assume the main form would raise OnClosing() of it's child forms automatically when closing. But it doesn't. The only way all child forms raise OnClosing() is when Application.Exit() is called... Which you can't call, because it will again raise OnClosing()
I fixed it for next release - but boy that's an interesting .Net behavior. It has been this way since the very first version of ARC. Crazy!
Not really, I used this before to stop background threads and it worked perfectly with this version is not working and I don't have way to get the closed/quit notification so the background threads/task will be forever running, and ARC stays a zombie process.
I reinstalled the October version (non beta version) and is working again, so something new was introduced and the form closed event is gone.
Without this most of (my) existent plugins will stay on... without shutdown.