From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-08T16:15:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] GUI's and the Rouge, Part IV

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 20:25, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Could you maybe defer the construction of the actual FOX widget until it's
> added to a parent (or however it is in GUtopIa that you associate child
> widgets with parent containers)? I'm not familiar enough with the GUtopIa
> architecture to know if this is doable or not.

i thought about this, breifly. i will consider it some more.

quick example on how children are assoc. to parents:

  abutton = GUtopIa::Button.new

  awindow = GUtopIa::Window.new
  awindow.body = [ [ abutton ] ]

so as you can see from this, the button needs to have some sort of
existence prior to being told were it will show up. we have done it this
way to allow for greater flexibility with regards to layout definition
(ie. in the example above GUtopIa knows this is a grid layout b/c of the
double array structure of body) and also for the ability to easily and
dynamically reassign widget locations. (in fox you do this with the
reparent method)

so i hesitate to adjust the way GUtopIa handles this, just for fox's
sake. the "foo" window may be a kludge, but it seems to work okay --i
don't see any problems with doing this, but perhaps there are?

~transami