At Sun, 3 Feb 2013 19:35:41 -0200 Gabriel Duarte <confuso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello! > No, you didn't get the ideia. I do no want to use a toolkit, I'm writing a > toolkit. It's an exercise and for fun, not something professional like > GTK+, Qt or TK. I have already used GTK+ and Qt, even FLTK for my projects, > so using them is not the big deal. I just asked here for someone who had > some experience building this kind of stuff and because I'm not so > experienced to Xlib. > > Build a text input box is challenging and because of this I asked for some > advices of how to write it, not use an already done from some other toolkit. > > Thank you anyway :) I will try this week to build some sketch of the text > input box :) One thought: The widgets in Tcl/Tk are layered right on top of XLib -- so looking at the source code for Tk might prove very enlightening... > Cheers > > 2013/2/2 Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> > > > At Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:02:04 -0800 Alan Coopersmith < > > alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 02/ 2/13 01:56 PM, Gabriel Duarte wrote: > > > > I already got window and button widgets working, and now I would like > > > > to write a text input box, but I have no idea how to start. If someone > > out > > > > there have advices, example code, etc etc, I would be very glad. > > > > > > The best advice we can give you is to use an existing toolkit. > > > Correctly handling all the different languages, writing systems, > > > accessibility helpers, etc. is a multi-year project to write, debug, > > > and make useful, and one that people have already done for you. > > > > And if you are too impatient for that, just use Tcl/Tk. Tcl is a basic > > scripting language that comes with a basic GUI toolkit. One that you > > can play with *interactively*. Once you have Tcl/Tk installed (under > > Linux it is just a matter of > > > > # Red Hat flavored (RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Fedora) > > yum install tcl tk > > # Debian flavored (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) > > apt-get install tcl tk > > > > ), you can do this ('%'=shell prompt): > > > > % wish > > pack [entry .e] > > > > and presto, a text input box. > > > > A slightly more exciting example: > > > > % wish > > pack [entry .e] -side left > > pack [buttom .b \ > > -text "Hit me" \ > > -command {puts "You entered: '[.e cget -text]'"}] -side right > > > > The packages *should* come with man pages. Also: visit > > http://wiki.tcl.tk/ for lots of fun stuff. > > > > > > > > > -- > > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com > > Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ > > () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail > > /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments > > > > > > > > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com