Franky's Notes

DiagramLib

Description

DiagramLib is a library that give the opportunity to draw some schema like Visio. I did this librairy doing a addon to Microsoft Visual Studio. The goal was simple use the drag&drop to quickly build a schema.

Features

You can draw many different shapes like: oval, rectangle, rounded rectangle, diamond and the special class shape.
Each shape is completely manageable by the UI. You just need to right-click on a shape to get the Property windows, exactly like Microsoft Visual Studio.
You can draw connection between shapes. Those connections will automatically be re-draw to optimize the path as you moving a shape. Also the connections have the same customization feature as all shape.
The board will automatically expend if needed.
You can save and load the schema.

Code

To be able to use the library you just need to add a reference to it.

        1: private GraphControl oBoard;

       2:  

       3: this.oBoard = new Compuware.DiagramLib.GraphControl();

       4:  

       5: this.oBoard.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;

       6: this.oBoard.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);

       7: this.oBoard.Name = "oBoard";

       8: this.oBoard.ShowLoadSaveOption = true;

       9: this.oBoard.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(605, 372);

      10: this.oBoard.Tracking = false;

Download

~~I did a quick test application to play with the class that you can download here:~~ ~~http://boucheros.no-ip.org/TestDiagramLib/~~

If you prefer doing a Test application by you're self here is the DLL: Boucheros.DiagramLib.rar

ScreenShot

For any Question or comment feel free to live a comment.

What you must have to enjoy IE7

Labels: Developer Toolbar, IE7, IE7Pro

Recently I got some trouble with the so lovely Firefox, so I got no choice to suffer and use IE. But then I take the time to search how I can improve the application. Here is my top 4 of some add-ons that are really nice....

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a set of tools for quickly creating and debugging web pages. Tools include such areas as exploring the DOM of a page, locating specific elements on a page, and outlining code blocks. It's really look like FireBug, a MSUT to any developer. Download from here.

Inline Search

Inline Search is a quick way to search for content on a web page without pulling up the Find Dialog as well as providing the ability to find as you type and highlighted search terms.

http://www.ieforge.com/InlineSearch/HomePage

Extended Copy Menu

Again for all developer... Adds a “Copy As Html” and “Copy As Plain Text” to the context (right-click) menu.

http://ryanscook.com/adminsBlog/2007/02/firefox-ie-copy-context-menus.html

IE7Pro

IE7Pro is an add-on for Internet Explorer which adds a lot of features and extras which make your Browsing faster,More Responsive and Sleek. It add also:

New Module: FasterIE,It will increase your IE surfing speed.
Add Session Manager function, it include save, load, copy, send by mail
IE context menu add save selected source code to file and clipboard as html, text, links
Online bookmark support IE8 webslice now
New ActiveXObject interface.
View page info SaveAs dialog support multi-select now
Add serverinfo plugin again

http://www.ie7pro.com/index.php?language=en

Voila! I hope you will enjoy those.

François

Change Font Color in Gnome Panels

Labels: Ubuntu

I don't know if you are like me, but I prefer darker themes.

But with Ubuntu no UI interffface is present be default to change the color of the font in Gnome panels. Here the simple way I found.

Open a terminal and type:
Haskell-Code:
```
sudo gedit .gtkrc-2.0
```

Then a empty file will open so copy-paste this code:

Haskell-Code:

include "/home/autocrosser/.gnome2/panel-fontrc"style "desktop-icon"
	{
	NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
	text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
	NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 70
	}
	class "GtkWidget" style "desktop-icon"
	#NautilusIconContainer::dark_info_color="#888888"
	#NautilusIconContainer::light_info_color="#bbbbbb"
	#NautilusIconContainer::highlight_alpha=20
	style "panel"
	{
	fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
	# fg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000″

	# fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
	# fg[SELECTED] = "#000000″

	# fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#8A857C"
	# bg[NORMAL] = "#000000″

	# bg[PRELIGHT] = "#dfdfdf"
	# bg[ACTIVE] = "#D0D0D0″

	# bg[SELECTED] = "#D8BB75″

	# bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#EFEFEF"
	# base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
	# base[PRELIGHT] = "#EFEFEF"
	# base[ACTIVE] = "#D0D0D0″

	# base[SELECTED] = "#DAB566″

	# base[INSENSITIVE] = "#E8E8E8″

	# text[NORMAL] = "#161616″

	# text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000″

	# text[ACTIVE] = "#000000″

	# text[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
	# text[INSENSITIVE] = "#8A857C"
	}
	widget "*PanelWidget*" style "panel"
	widget "*PanelApplet*" style "panel"
	class "*Panel*" style "panel"
	widget_class "*Mail*" style "panel"
	class "*notif*" style "panel"
	class "*Notif*" style "panel"
	class "*Tray*" style "panel"
	class "*tray*" style "panel"

That time I change the color code of: fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF". You can change this fffor any color by using the #RRGGBB equivalent code.

Save. Close the editor. Re-log and Enjoy!

If you dont know the code for the color you want you can go here, Or you can use gcolor2. To install it type in a terminal

Haskell-Code:

sudo apt-get install gcolor2

And when you are done, type: gcolor2 and voila!

I hope this little trick will make it eiser for you!

Franky

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