[UI] Looking for a GridLayout

Brian Brown rbb at techgame.net
Tue Jan 20 15:22:52 UTC 2009


On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Matthew Fulmer wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:00:04PM -0700, Brian Brown wrote:
>> Have you ever taken a look at GuidedLayout on squeaksource? I
>> definitely does grids, among other things, and its MIT
>
> No, I haven't. I was in the middle of writing my own when I got
> your email.
>
> I don't get what it does or how to use it. It needs more
> comments.
>

Hmm, I thought there were a few sample methods on the class side, but  
I haven't looked at for a while...

> the one I'm working on is based on
> https://tablelayout.dev.java.net/
>
> which I was told in #squeak is the easiest one to use of all
> he's tried. I attached the javadoc HTML page which overviews how
> to use it, which is all I used of it. I'm about 60% through
> implementing it, and it looks to be 5 classes and about 40
> methods, plus lots of comments. I'm writing it for Tweak, but it
> should be straightforward to port to Morphic, as the layout code
> is nearly identical between them (just a half-dozen methods with
> different names)
>
> I'm writing it because we have a lot of traditional dialog boxes
> we need to layout in Cobalt.
>
> PS. I made a trivial fix to GuidedLayout. I changed all _
> assignments to := so that it can load in Cobalt:
> http://www.duke.edu/~mtf4/GuidedLayout-mtf.20.mcz
>
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> Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/
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