That's a shot of it: http://imageshack.us/f/84/shoti.png/
It lacks a two cadinal pointers in the image, as I was testing don't remember what when I had stop it. I also forgot to say is done right on top of Xlib and uses XResources for font color, background and border color. No dependencies or whatsoever on thirdy-party libraries. Regards, On 17/05/2011, Eduardo Costa <ecosta....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > That's not true at all John. Have you ever heard/seen a program called > Alias Wavefront Maya? It used to be from Silicon Graphics, but they > sold it to Autodesk a couple of years ago. > > A program for 3D CGI which has quite an innovative popup menu system > with something called hotboxes and cardinal menus (the one shown > bellow). 200% productive, and much better than anyother > existing/deployed nowadays: > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/504/polygonquickmenunothingrx6.jpg/ > > and driven from MEL (sort of an intepreted c languaje they roled for > the purpose of scripting such a huge program). Believe me, you > wouldn't even think it is scripted because they didn't abuse of it, > yet it lets such menu system be 10 times more powerful! > > I do share many of your points Russell, while I'm happy (still) using > geda. It seems to me is going somewhere I don't really want to be in a > future. > > I've got almost done a c-library I wrote implementing this menu > systems for my own programs. Haven't looked at it for a time, but it > could work with gtk or other toolkits as long as they allow low level > event handling. > > Anyways, if you are really going for it, and are going to use old'good > c, I'll be pleased to hear your thoughts and cooperate. > > Regards, > > > On 17/05/2011, John Doty <j...@noqsi.com> wrote: >> >> On May 17, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Russell Shaw wrote: >> >>> >>> Most guis hide what they do. I believe in them showing the commands they >>> send internally as a script would (or atleast have the option to show >>> that) >>> so the user can paste the commands into an external file if needed. >> >> I've done GUIs that wrap scripts, but it only works in very simple, >> shallow >> cases. An API that supports GUI well is very different from an API that >> supports scripting well. >> >> John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. >> http://www.noqsi.com/ >> j...@noqsi.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geda-user mailing list >> geda-user@moria.seul.org >> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user >> > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
