Re: [Gnue-dev] a 'better' patch

[Jason Cater]

I like the concept of containers.  I've wanted containers for a while
(to help make "importable" UI elements). 

However, It's the "scrollbox" that worries me. I have this great fear
that you are taking forms in a direction it wasn't meant to go.  This is
very GUI-specific markup (as in, scrollboxes make no sense in most
target UIs); we've tried to leave anything non-generic out of the GFD
file.  

Anyone else care to comment?

-- Jason

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:17:51 -0300
"Marcos Dione" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>   this version of the patch adds mainmenubar, maintoolbar and the new
> widget: scrollbox. it's better in the sense that it has been updated
> to the new _createWidget api. so, it can be safely applied to the
> actual cvs version (it was made against yesterday cvs).
> 
>   about scrollwidget: this one has the ability of containing widgets.
> which means that widgets declared inside <scrollbox> tags will be
> drawn *inside* the scrollbox (as one would expect). another deatil is
> that the coordinates (attrs x and y) of the widgets declared inside
> the scrollbox are relative to the scrollbox left upper corner, and not
> the window's one. this is related to the fact that scrollbox is
> declared as 'container'
> 
>   in a chat session with jamest, I suggested him to make <box> a
> container as well. this would not break any existing code (box cannot
> have other widgets defined 'inside') and that would allow to make (I
> think) more modular forms.
> 
>   last, and again, any suggestions are welcome.
>