From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-12T10:31:44+09:00
Subject: Re: opengl

On 2002.07.12, Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> wrote:
> 
> considering i've just spent 4 hrs trying to get my javascript to
> reposition the html page after a submit, 

I take it you didn't try the named anchor tag approach I suggested?

> opengl forms gui, well, i'm thinking along these lines: a basic set of
> objects including a container pane which can have optional scrollbars
> attached to it, a table object which can have spanning cols and rows,
> each cell of which is a pane, and your basic set of form objects: text,
> text input (single and multiline), checkbox, radio buttons, dropdown,
> combobox, multiple selection list, regular button, and perhaps a knob
> and a tree, and an input grid. i think that would be enough. i don't
> want to over complicate the matter.

Sounds like all the widgets available in FOX via FXRuby ... *cheap plug*

> notice: i'm scrapping my web application. now i'm in the market for a
> gui. i still wish to use ruby. it needs to run on linux, windows, and
> mac. recommendations?

FXRuby.  Look into it.  Most definitely.

> if anyone is interested in working with me on an opengl forms gui
> toolkit, i would prefer to take this route. i can can compensate a
> little. takers?

I'm not really interested in an OpenGL version, but I might be inclined
to work on a forms designer for FXRuby since my GUI programming skills
are way weak -- I even have trouble laying out dialogs the way I want in
Tk, which is pathetically simple with most of the packing managers.

I just can't get my mind wrapped around pixel-based GUI programming.
Probably comes from doing 12+ years of coding character-based GUI
applications (mostly vt100 and wyse60) and less than a year of
pixel-based GUI programming.

Something that let me WYSIWYG lay out forms for FXRuby, save the form
as a list of widgets, their coordinates/dimensions, and hook them up
to code that handles events for each widget ... that would be a dream!

Maybe I should start implementing this and use it as inspiration to
work on the FXBook project (which isn't dead, just resting!) ...

-- Dossy

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