New widget: Dialog, Tooltip? WxWidgets support?
Nicholas Steinberg <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:49:18 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.graphics.y.devel |
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Hello, there. I am rather new to Y-Windows, but I'd like to do whatever I can to help (or to help others help, or to demand useless features [get ready for the Emacs of alternative GUIs]). Perhaps a widget that might be useful in some applications is a tooltip. Similar to any other dialog, but it may disappear after a certain amount of time, it appears where the cursor is (and moves with the cursor?), it doesn't take focus away from the main window, and it may have reduced controls (who needs to iconify a tooltip?). WxWidgets (formerly WxWindows), http://www.wxwidgets.org/ , seems to be gaining in popularity. WxWidgets is basically a cross-platform GUI toolkit that uses native elements whenever possible. I think that, once Y-windows develops some more, it might be useful to have native support of WxWidgets, because, if more and more applications are being written in WxWidgets (but /for/ X, Aqua, Win32, etc.), it would mean little or no porting to be used in Y. - Nicholas. -- MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING