Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-07 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Apr 7, 2016, at 4:31 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> On Apr 6, 2016, at 06:16 , Peter M. Brigham wrote: >> >> On Apr 5, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: >> >>> Oh No! I think I just lit a fire that will put me yet another learning >>> curve. (smile) OH well... keeps the gr

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
> On Apr 6, 2016, at 06:16 , Peter M. Brigham wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > >> Oh No! I think I just lit a fire that will put me yet another learning >> curve. (smile) OH well... keeps the gray cells green! > > I have a bumper sticker on my car t

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Some would call that an oxymoron. Bob S On Apr 5, 2016, at 09:49 , Richard Gaskin mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: thoroughly debugged ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscr

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-06 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Apr 5, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Oh No! I think I just lit a fire that will put me yet another learning > curve. (smile) OH well... keeps the gray cells green! I have a bumper sticker on my car that reads "Oh, no, not another learning experience!" -- Peter Pet

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Trevor Wrote: It isn't about how easy the custom control is to create, it's about how easy it is to update the control across an entire project as the control evolves. Thanks Trevor. You hit a nail on the head. That is at least one answer to my core question. > Put another way, can we, in gene

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Roger Eller
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > That is, you *can't* edit a Widget in LC at all at the moment, so it's > essential that a Widget be thoroughly debugged. > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Dupuis wrote: > Actually, not so much maintain the custom control. It is the > convenience of having a custom control on a tool palette where > I can just drag and drop a copy where needed (like Widgets or > "regular" Tools"). > I have been known, once

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> With the group message, behaviors, before and after handlers, >> getProp and setProp, and other such goodies, I can't think of >> a project I've worked on in recent years that hasn't made >> extensive use of custom

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 4/5/2016 11:57 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Trevor DeVore > wrote: > >> > >> > I imagine the problem Paul is trying to solve ... >> > > This should read ONE problem Paul is trying to solve rather than THE > problem Paul is trying to solve. Actually, not so much m

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > > I imagine the problem Paul is trying to solve ... > This should read ONE problem Paul is trying to solve rather than THE problem Paul is trying to solve. -- Trevor DeVore ScreenSteps www.screensteps.com-www.clarify-it.com __

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > But traditional custom controls have a place too, and the LiveCode Script > they rely continues to be enhanced even as LCB is expanded along with it. > > The additional object overhead of custom controls isn't that much higher > than Widg

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Dupuis wrote: > On 4/5/2016 6:12 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >>> Frequently we use small groups to instantiate "objects" which are >>> made of of several controls grouped together. These are then >>> replicated across some card for whatever purpose. I think that is the >>> underlying model for

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 4/5/2016 6:12 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> Frequently we use small groups to instantiate "objects" which are >> made of of several controls grouped together. These are then >> replicated across some card for whatever purpose. I think that is the >> underlying model for the DataGrid. >> >> Would

Re: Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 04/04/2016 23:29, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Just putting my little pinky into the widget world. Frequently we use small groups to instantiate "objects" which are made of of several controls grouped together. These are then replicated across some card for whatever purpose. I think th

Widgets' Use Cases and Bytes Added to App

2016-04-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Just putting my little pinky into the widget world. Frequently we use small groups to instantiate "objects" which are made of of several controls grouped together. These are then replicated across some card for whatever purpose. I think that is the underlying model for the DataGrid. Would such