Thanks for the remark. However, I am confused with your statement. If I can edit .lay file why can't I edit it in their text form?

For example I want to put a StaticText or label specifying foreground and background color. GUI editor shows only foreground color or INK COLOR.
How can I do this?

#include <CtrlLib/CtrlLib.h>
using namespace Upp;

#define LAYOUTFILE <MyApp/MyApp.lay>
#include <CtrlCore/lay.h>

class MyWindow : public WithMyLayout<TopWindow> {
	typedef MyWindow CLASSNAME;

public:
	MyWindow(){
		CtrlLayout(*this, "");
		MyStaticText.SetText("MyText");
	}

};

MyStaticText.SetText(t_("\1[$(0.0.255) Test]")

Thanks for the explanation.

I am sorry asking too many and silly questions. Please consider me as a learner who likes to clear confusion. Although the concept and implement of U++ is superb, "theide" is also great! I am surprised to see why I did not find this tool before!

1. I find that upp.out directory contains all the upp related staff and ~/MyApps/Testing contains all .cpp, .lay and .h files. If I want to build an application and like to run on some other machine not having Upp or other staffs installed, how can I do it? I found that in my machine, I can run executable file Testing built at ~/upp.out/MyApps/GCC.Debug.Debug_Full.Gui.Shared/.

2. Can I plot mathematical graphs etc.? Can I use codes with matplotlib in python or U++ has own widgets?

I am making a GUI for my App which is a small scientific application for my experimental device which needs a menu while one menu item shall open a small panel in same window to input text and data, while the other panel in the same window shall erase earlier panel and may plot some files in 2D, 3D, contour etc.

I have seen GU Tut 6. I want a menu at the top. Depending on the menu item, panels need to be opened in the same window in stead of separate windows erasing contents of earlier items.

@HONZA,

Thanks for kindly guiding me.

I am trying to use ParentCtrl, while I am facing problem.

I am attaching required files. The initial screen is OK. When I press "Configure", I want "CardLayout1" is to be shown which is not coming.
By the by, please ignore many commented lines as I am learner.

Please guide me.

void Testing::doConfig() {
	doPlot.Remove();
	Add(doCard);
}

void Testing::doGeom() {
	doCard.Remove();
	Add(doPlot);
}

However, I may reach Plot menu from any other menu item having separate layout except card menu. Should I use ".Remove() for all other different layout or there is any single Remove command to remove all other layout which may be present there?

void Testing::SetLayout(Ctrl* ctrl) {
	if (active)
		active->Remove();
	Add(*ctrl);
	active = ctrl;
}

		menu.Add("Configure", THISBACK1(SetLayout, &doCard)).Help("Edit Simulation Setup");
		menu.Add("Geometry", THISBACK1(SetLayout, &doPlot)).Help("Edit Experimental Geometry");

		menu.Add("Configure", THISBACK1(SetLayout, &doCard)).Help("Edit Simulation Setup");
		menu.Add("Geometry", THISBACK1(SetLayout, &doPlot)).Help("Edit Experimental Geometry");

That is of course assuming there is no special initialization for each layout needed on each switch, in which case you would have to still call doConfig() and doGeom() from menu and they would in turn call the common switching code in SetLayout.

Honza

You are passing the functions (doConfig, doGeom) instead of the ParentCtrls (doCard, doPlot)

Honza

I wanted to make a simple layout like before by adding a new layout. While build is performed, I get an error

 In file included from /home/vega/MyApps/honza/Testing/main.cpp:1:0:
/home/vega/MyApps/honza/Testing/Testing.h:15:2: error: 'WithPltLayout1' does
     not name a type
  WithPltLayout1<ParentCtrl>doGeo;
  ^

• Is there really layout called PltLayout1? Check for typos...
• Is it in the .lay file that is properly included in Testing.h (using #define LAYOUTFILE <Testing/xyz.ly> with #include CtrlCore/lay.h following)?
• Is there some syntax error preceding this line, that would make your compiler report this as an error, while it is actually correct?

Hello Abhijit

For the ScatterCtrl the best for you would be to open ScatterCtrl_demo and reading for example tab1_Basic.cpp.

For example you can declare a Vector<Pointf> data in a safe place (as a class member, for example), fill it with the data from your file and do this:

void Tab1_Basic::Init()
{
	CtrlLayout(*this);	
	SizePos();
	
	data << Pointf(10, 26) << Pointf(20, 37) << Pointf(30, 31) << Pointf(40, 33) << Pointf(50, 28);
	scatter.AddSeries(data).Legend("Series 1").Fill().MarkBorderColor();
	
	scatter.SetRange(60, 50).SetMajorUnits(10, 10);
	scatter.ShowInfo().ShowContextMenu().ShowPropertiesDlg().SetPopText("h", "v", "v2").SetMouseHandling(true, true);
	scatter.SetLegendPos(Point(20, 20));
}

Hello vegaonline

I understand that your issue is that you do not know how to get data from a text file, lets say a .csv file, and fill with it a C++ vector or an U++ Vector, isn't it?

(i) I want to read a csv data file and take into U++ vector. Can I do like C++ vectors which is easy?

FileIn f("/path/to/my.file");
String ln = f.GetLine();
String val1, val2;
Vector<double> x, y;
while( !f.IsEof()) {
	SplitTo(ln, '\t', val1, val2);  // for tab delimited values, change delimiter as needed
	x.Add(StrDbl(TrimBoth(val1)));
	y << StrDbl(TrimBoth(val2));    // this is same as y.Add, just bit easier to read in some cases
	ln = f.GetLine();
}

(ii) When I try to put items in droplist associated to a layout, I see nothing. Pl. see last attachment.

	doPlot.pltType.Add(0,"2D");
	doPlot.pltType.Add(1,"3D");
	doPlot.pltType.Add(2,"Contour");

Hi,

You can simply construct Pointf from two doubles: Pointf(x, y). So the code would be:

Vector<Pointf> data;
while (!inF.IsEof()) {
		SplitTo(ln, ',', val1, val2);
		double x = StrDbl(TrimBoth(val1));
		double y = StrDbl(TrimBoth(val2));
		data.Add(Pointf(x,y));
		ln = inF.GetLine();
	}

Honza

As far as I know we cannot plot 3D data yet.

I have a confusion. Suppose I have a class Testing which is declared as TopWindow. Now let there be another class Plotting
as ParentCtrl. I can declare "Plotting plt" in the construction of class Testing so that I may access methods of Plotting
from Testing by using "plt.funcInPlotting".

Is there any way by which I can also refer a variable/methods of Testing from a function of Plotting?

Hi Abhijit,

I don't immediately see any problem with your code, without actually running it...

If I were you, I'd try to add some logging into key places of the code, to figure out where exactly is the problem. Use LOG and DUMP macros, which produce a log when the application is compiled in debug mode. To see the log, just press Alt+L or go to Debug > View the logfile. I'd start with adding DUMP(json) after the loop. Also, I guess you already tried inspecting the values of id, by adding PromptOK. Does it show the names of fields you are expecting?

Also, the code seems little over-complicated. Have a look at examples in reference/Jsonize. It displays exactly what you want, saving large structures into json file (just not as dynamically as you try to do it). Also reference/SelectFile might be of some help.

Best regards,
Honza

Hi,

I'm still not sure it is really good idea to this dynamically, but here is a working method:

	void StoreToJson() {
		Json json;
		for (Ctrl *q = GetFirstChild(); q; q=q->GetNext()) {
			if (dynamic_cast<EditField *> (q)) {
				String id = q->GetLayoutId();
				if (id.GetCount())
					json(id, ~*q);
			}
		}
		SelectFileOut out("*.*");
		if (out.IsOpen())
			out << json << "\n";
	}

It is actually almost the same as the code you posted. Full code is in the attached archive. Just click anywhere in the window to trigger the save as dialog. I'm not sure why it didn't work for you. Only thing I can think of is that you didn't assign names to the editfields in the layout.

Honza