Release Notes for Version 0.97
This is a freeware AADR9 release of the resource and GUI editor
with add-on and drag&drop support for the BeOS.
Distribution
This distribution contains the following files and directories:
InterfaceElements
The main application. Run it by doubleclicking on it.
ReadMe
AddOns/
Interface Elements resource editor add-ons. More add-ons can be downloaded from Naoyuki Ikegami's IE add-ons page.
MoveContentsToRootDir/
Interface Elements GUI element add-ons and inspectors.
In this version GUI add-ons will be located in this order:
- from the INTERFACE_ELEMENTS_ADDONS environment variable if it exists
- from a directory named GUI in the directory where your application resides
- from /boot/add-ons/InterfaceElements
- from /boot/system/add-ons/InterfaceElements
Move the contents to the root directory before first starting IE.
Develop/
Headers and a static library
IEAddOn.h
Header file for resource editor add-ons
IEElement.h
Header file for GUI element add-ons
IEApplication.h, IEResourceHandler.h, IEWindow.h, IE.a
Header files and static library for use with applications generated by IE
Documentation/
Home of the HTML documentation. The root file is 'index.html'.
Samples/
Sample resource file and application.
Installing Interface Elements
- Unzip the archive.
- Move the contents of "MoveContentsToRootDir" to the root directory before first starting IE.
Optionally you can move the GUI add-ons to /system/add-ons/InterfaceElements if you want.
- Now you are ready to run Interface Elements by doubleclicking on its icon.
Sample add-on sources!
Sample add-on sources are not included but can be downloaded separately from the
Interface Elements homepage: http://w3.datanet.hu/~amezei/IE/
Known bugs and limitations
Please send me bug reports if you find one.
Due to a bug in the Tracker, data cannot be dropped to a Tracker window.
There may be strange results with the outline listview, when you delete the last item from a given type. This is a BOutlineListView bug.
Currently BeIDE project file is not created. This will be fixed soon.
Some BView derived classes (BTextControl, BMenuField...) do not render correctly
in an offscreen bitmap. This is why you will see only an empty rectangle
when you drag them from the palette to your window. This is reported to Be, Inc.
The resource file size is always increasing regardless how many resources
you delete. This is reported to Be, Inc.