Hi to all gtk+ users,
At first I get few ideas about some new widgets.
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1. The 3 states button.
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The most important, the most easy to implement is the idea of a button which
can take 3 different states.
I had this idea because I often have the need of something that I have called
the triboolean logic.
Which consist of something like a boolean but instead of 0 or 1 as possible
values you get 3 values:
-1, 0 and 1.
It's of course easy to create this type with **typedef**:
https://github.com/mrcyberfighter/mk-project/blob/master/mk-project-1.0.0/data/templates/C_Project/headers/tribool.h
But gtk+ don't have this kind of widget and I never try to D.I.Y a widget with
gtk+.
ASCII Image of a 3 state button:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
```
+-----+-----+-----+
| - | 0 | + |
+-----+-----+-----+
```
2. The gizmo widget.
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What do you think of a widget emulating a gizmo ?
A gizmo looks like a joystick stick and is used to control a camera for moving
the camera and zooming.
Of course I think it's difficult to set it up to be as generic as possible into
gtk but not impossible.
You can per example make a widget looking like this:
```
____
/ \
| |
\____/
```
________
/ \
/ \
| \_|_/ |
| --|___|-- |
| / | \ |
\ /
\________/
```
A cross to indicate the directions, Inscribe in a circle with reactive regions,
with a central button.
I think the best for emulating a gizmo is to take the cross of a joystick,
with 8 directions, and adding a center region to press in/out...
Once done you can set the increments for every region for X and Y.
And the action to bind to bind to the central button press button.
Maybe you can use the inner drag-n-drop mechanic of gtk as base
for a better control of this widget with the mouse or touch devices.
Some critics about the Windows compatibility.
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I have seen on this mail list that the bug of the native file chooser
manifesting by displaying a windows saying that the CD reader device is not
ready
comes from the BIOS CD reading capability...???
I had the same problem but it has fast disappear after some use of my music
player.
What's the problem for implementing a native folder chooser in fact ?
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My first critic rely on the Gio GAppInfo which simply doesn't work.
Okay I can't set my application as default for content type per example,
but why ?
Is this due of the underlying GvFS which Windows not implement ?
the developers of gtk won't make otherwise, they won't touch the hive in writing ?
I don't really care about it.
It's a hallas to make Windows understand that your program
take more than one file as argument, once incomportementstalled,
whereas you can launch it with cmd.exe then it works.
They tell me I have to build something like COM serv(er|ice) for passing more
than one file as argument to my music player. For making it work properly
for selecting and open with...
Instead that Windows emulate the cmd.exe to launch a program
the graphic server (open with) work's otherwise: winshit !
Good work to the gtk development team but
stop to change the behavior of some components by every version incrementation
please.
I gonna go crazy if I must rewrite parts of all my program due of this every
time.
Thanks, best regards,
mrcyberfighter.
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