[Tweak] Tweak position?
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Feb 9 00:48:26 UTC 2005
Hi Russel,
> I think you have hit the nail on the head.
Thanks ;-)
> UIManager sounds like a good place to start.
Right. Get it here: http://source.impara.de/Tweak.html (UIManager-ar.3.mcz
is the latest).
> As for the cross-framework widgets what about making an abstraction of
> widgets stored in something such as XML which can generate a framework
> specific version of a widget or window? Note that is just a place to get
> started, No Thought(tm) has been put into it. :)
Yes, I proposed that earlier on IRC. The Squeak World Tour had some baseline
code to deal with that - XML ui spec and then an appropriate builder for the
different backends. I wonder if that code is still around (and if so, what
license it might be under). That said, there isn't an intrinsic need for
using XML - anything that doesn't refer to class names directly could be
used; say something that just reads as:
builder := UIBuilder default.
list := builder newPluggableList on: self getListSelector: ...
will work just as well and might be less effort (yes you would have to fix
up the interfaces to be consistent but that's certainly doable).
> And **MOST** importantly to *me*, this fits into the idea of a minimal
> Base
> Squeak which can have packages loaded into it as required. If I run a
> headless image, I load the Headless package (HeadlessUIManager). Morphic
> image? Load Morphic package (MorphicUIManager). Tweak? ... etc.
As you might imagine I don't care too much about running headless - what
would be more interesting (and an immense coolness factor) is if a
SeasideUIManager would be capable of rendering a standard Squeak browser. Or
Monticello. Or anything else ;-)
Cheers,
- Andreas
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