Does suckless really need a WIMP-toolkit? I hope not. That aside, I made some comments to garbeam regarding the code in #cat-v last week, I don't remember much but I was not impressed, specially with the whole event/callbacks system, which is a really retarded way to build GUIs.
So far it looks like a really crappy version of GTK. uriel On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:00 PM, <panc...@youterm.com> wrote: > Anselm and me have been talking to get a proper initial design > to bring a minimalistic widget toolkit to the masses. > > After few months of thinking, typing test programs and so on > I have managed to get a working state for the project, so I'm > exposing the results of this work in this mail looking for > people who is interested on helping to the project with ideas, > patches and so on. > > SWK is a comprehensive widget kit that aims to be simple, > lightweight and support many graphical backends (SDL, x11..) > > At the moment I have focused the development on SDL, and I have > managed to use it in desktop, n900 and a dingoo console. But > there's still bugs to fix, things to optimize, missing features > and other stuff that is not yet done..but described in TODO. > > The current set of widgets: > > void swk_button(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_label(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_entry(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_password(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_filler(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_option(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_separator(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_progress(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_image(SwkEvent *e); > void swk_sketch(SwkEvent *e); > > Text processing is pretty basic, no formatting, no cursor support, etc.. > The creation of new widgets is as simple as defining such a event > handler function and embed it into an array of SwkBox'es to the > SwkWindow in use. > > Some of the basics of the design are: > > - 1 window per-app > - automatic scrolling area, so no hidden elements > - clean/separated graphical API > - no trees, just plain 1 dimensional array of widgets > - rows are defined by NEWLINE elements > - automatic alignment based of minimum values and swk layout > - <2KLOC :) (now is 800LOC) > > I would explain so many things more about the library, but I > think is better if you give a look at the source and try the > examples. > > Feel free to give me feedback and dont be shy to send patches. > > To build the current version you need: > > sdl, sdl-ttf and sdl-image > > Try it and let me know what do you think about it > > hg clone http://hg.suckless.org/swk > > Happy hacking > > --pancake
