On 05/13/10 11:29, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
On 13 May 2010 10:04, Szabolcs Nagy<nszabo...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/12/10, Rory Rory<tirar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Right now it's not obvious what the widgets actually are. The
textboxes look identical to the buttons and it's hard to know where to
type into.
don't care about the visual representation
that's the last thing you wish to design
the question is if the programming model is simple and powerful enough
* there is "box" and "event"
* each box has an event handler and that's the only thing that
determines the behaviour of the box (visual behaviour and internal
state).
* the event handler gets called with events that occured over the area
of the box.
* there is no parent/child of a box so you cannot pass events around
(as in most toolkits), you have to handle or ignore them
* the area of a box is determined by the toolkit, only the box layout
should be described (boxes per rows), so not just fixed resolution
pixel based representation is possible
btw if there is strictly one window per application (the container of
boxes) then the window can be a global variable, you don't have to
pass it around in every swk function and struct.
I agree, SwkWindow could be removed from the signatures and be
declared as global.
Apart from that I agree with the question you raise and I don't have
the answer either yet. I agreed with pancake that we go with this
approach in the beginning to get a feeling if it's right. I think this
thread is supposed to gain further insight and opinions from others as
well.
The main question is if the box/event model is right.
Cheers,
Anselm
Just for the curious people. A friend of me talked about another widget
kit i didnt knew. It's not suckless, but it is not as bloated as qt or gtk
are. Here's the url:
http://libagar.org/
Back to SWK discussion..
Check t/ui.c and you will understand why SwkWindow is not global variable.
Do somebody noticed this file? I mean..the UI can be done not only by code..
also in ascii art. About the other questions..I think i'm not the right
person
to reply those questions :)
--pancake
