On Mon, 18 May 2009, Reece Dunn wrote: [...] > I was thinking of some sort of auto-layout logic, using bounding box > calculations and metric information fed from Windows guidelines. The > idea here is to give a consistent layout and make it easier to add new > controls. > > I am aware that this is very complex, and I don't yet know how to > transform the flat layout to a hierarchical layout that contains the > box information necessary to do the reflow calculations.
If we go that route, we should probably start from a bounding box-based description of the dialogs, and then generate both the English and the localized dialogs. For instance the glade format seems to be bounding-box based. It also probably already has tools to handle localization. So we could probably start from a English glade file describing a dialog, generate localized versions of that file, and then, for each language, pass the dialog through our bounding-box calculator to convert that to coordinates and generate the corresponding rc files. -- Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ 1 + e ^ ( i * pi ) = 0
