Re: [paragui-users] widget registry?

[Asko Kauppi]

then why not embed a whole (small and simple) lua core within paragui.
by that i mean _inside_, could actually replace 'internal-expat' at the 
same time.

this would allow you to:
        - implement C stuff with C
        - implement more higher level stuff (maps) in Lua
        - outside world would never know.. ;)

another idea could be to extract the (ready, working, and efficient) 
mapping code
from lua sources and bring it in. But i would presume that to be a more 
elaborate option.

You might even be able to replace the 'expat' dependency by this, so 
the total number
of 'dependencies' (even internal) would not increase.

as Pete the Fixer (or what's he called in English) sings:
"get the right tools for the job..."  ;)

-ak


Teunis Peters kirjoittaa perjantaina, 15. elokuuta 2003, kello 00:29:

> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Asko Kauppi wrote:
>
> > just leave the mapping to the script level, imho.
>
> NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
> That is a COMPLETE misunderstanding of this whole issue.
> The map references here have nothing to do with scripts.
>
> I'll make this clear right now.
>
> the vector<...> objects hold lists of things.  Like widgets for 
> instance.
> Internal management of data VERY important.
>
> list<...> (only found so far in RichEdit) could be replaced easily with
> the equivalent code for vector<...>.
>
> map<...> found in a number of areas are for things like LOCATING 
> widgets
> in a list, finding widget data in a file or for keeping track of IDs 
> for
> radiobuttons and the like.
>
> All very core issues, all things that BELONG in the core.
>
> I'm getting tired of "replace this with X script language".  Especially
> like here where the solution does NOT fit the problem at hand.
>
> You want a script to work with paragui?  Then these components have to
> work.
>
> also:
>
> I'm not working on ParaGUI itself, I'm working on a C-based split.  
> Looks
> like I'll be able to bring a lot of changes back into the ParaGUI 
> system
> itself later though.
>
>
> also - the widget management thing is about how to define a registry
> within ParaGUI to manage new widgets so that additional helpers (even
> scripts) could build widgets usable in ParaGUI.  I'm working on 
> developing
> such at the moment and am working out how to organize it.  Again not a
> script issue but it will affect scripts later.
>
> G'day, eh? :)
>         - Teunis
>
>
>
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