Mike Meyer:
> The obvious solution would be for the system to detect all these
> environmental factors, and scale the applications
> accordingly. However, things like viewing distance and the quality of
> my eyesight are hard to detect automatically, and it would be a pain
> to have to enter all t
Chris Lambacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think you need to step out of the age of Motif and MFCs and look at
> what modern toolkits and GUI designers have to offer before you start
> in on a rant.
Yeah, pretty much every fancy web page designer these days uses
graphic tools like Dreamweaver
I think you missed looking at several GUI builders. I have not used a
GUI builder in 5 years that had you nail down positions.
Swing(for Java), GTK, Qt, and wxWidgets(to a lesser degree) all use a
sizer metaphore. You lay out he sizers and put your widgets in
various sizer layouts. This means t
Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> The first, and most obvious, thing that GUI builders do is force the
>> developer to specify an exact position - if not size - for the
>> graphical elements of the UI.
>
> They do? I don't remember
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> The first, and most obvious, thing that GUI builders do is force the
> developer to specify an exact position - if not size - for the
> graphical elements of the UI.
They do? I don't remember them doing that. I just downloaded SpecTcl
(a oldish ex
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:38:16PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
[...]
> The first, and most obvious, thing that GUI builders do is force the
> developer to specify an exact position - if not size - for the
> graphical elements of the UI.
[...]
Certainly some---or even most---builders work like this.
