Re: [rgui-dev] RE: Backend

[Kero van Gelder]

> > except create() is never called...
> 
> sorry, i haven't finished reading the whole of your reply yet, but i
> thought i'd clear this up real quick. GUtopIa is doing a sort of Lazy
> Evaluation. I've done this in preperation for the fact that other
> toolkits require predefined parent widgets,

Naturally. What's the use of displaying a Label if the parent isn't
there, yet? What would be a use for the Label to exist without being
displayed?

> unlike GUtopIa's API and
> GTKs. this isn't fully implemented yet, but this lazy eval makes it
> possible. anyhow the create() method is called from the Application
> class:
> 
>     def start(&kickstart)
>       puts "starting application..."
>       Platform.initialize
>       @views.each do |view|
>         view.components.sort.each do |component|
>           component.create
>         end
>       end
>       instance_eval(&kickstart)
>       @views.each do |view|
>         Platform.start
>       end
>     end

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