On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 yampa at mindspring.com wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT) Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 yampa at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> > I am working on a new version of Bob's UI, and was trying to develop a
> > single line entry field, but couldn't figure it out.  
> 
> >Is it really that hard? I'm a bit surprised.
> 
> I couldn't figure out the horizontal scrolling, for one.  

Ah, yeah. Hmm.

> I also was
> trying to have it do more on the "model" side of the widget, and it
> didn't like what I was doing.

Heh.

[snip]
> >Ooo, then let me put in a request: >UIPluggableTextMorph (like the list
> >one). With that, BobUI would be *perfect* for >replacing Scamper's current
> >table support, which means we could make BobsUI >UI via HTML + tweaking.
> 
> Ok, I'll see what I can do about adding the PluggableTextMorph.  As
> for the BobsUI via HTML + tweaking comment, what do you want to do
> with that, create a BobsUI Scamper?  

Yes. To wit, instead of using PluggableTextMorph et al directly, use the
BobsUI varient. Among other things, this gets us the input/textarea
distinction, which is useful.

> I have BobsUI reading and writing
> XML window specs now, and a BobsUIBuilder to create a window from XML.
> (I no longer use the current BobsUI building methods) You could
> probably write a new Builder class that reads HTML and creates a
> BobsUI window.  Is that what you want?

Maybe. I don't mind making a normal web page with form. Reading that into
Scamper, and then (trying) to use Scamper's form support directly for data
entry. But the HTML spec varient is good too. One less format. (XForms is
probably nicer.)

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.