nanogui: Widget configuration in W toolkit
Subject:
Re: Widget configuration in W toolkit
From:
"Amit Kulkarni" ####@####.####
Date:
21 Dec 2000 17:38:30 -0000
Message-Id: <F29806zPpPku04koK5u00001be4@hotmail.com>
well we here are trying to develop a widget set native to the nano-X api and
will post a alpha alpha version soon. ;-)
It will primarily focus on simple design and minimal size.
The idea is to combine the good features of many existing widget sets like
motif,fltk,qt,gtk and come up with an api that will aid the user to rapidly
devlop (atleast simple) applications easily.
I would appreciate it if we could get any ideas before we decide to finish
off with the primary version.
Regards,
Amit Kulkarni
Visit me at http://www.amitkulkarni.com
>From: ####@####.####
>To: ####@####.####
>Subject: Widget configuration in W toolkit
>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:33:33 +0100
>
>Hi!
>
>I have had a look at the W toolkit. It looks to me very similar to the Max
>toolkit of the Marx (C-like) scripting language interpreter (don't search
>for it - it's not on the web anymore). There is one thing I would like to
>discuss:
>
>In W and Max you configure a Widget via a variable argument list with a
>token (the action or thing to change) and a value for this action. You end
>up with a special token. Isn't this paradigma much less powerfull, then the
>GC one used in X11, nano-X and GEM (virtual workstations=GC)?
>
>In X11 e.g. you can set up a GC ready for use with - let's say - buttons.
>You can set a fg/bg-color, a font etc. Now you can use this GC a several
>time. In W or Max you would have to set the widgets look each time again -
>explicitely.
>
>I tell that in thinking about the discussion to eventually create a new
>basic widget set especially for nano-X. If we would make a new one, we
>could use all features of nano-X and could tune it to use nano-X's concepts
>exclusively. It would be very powerful and small - but not more
>multiplatform, than nano-X.
>
>---
>Martin
>
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