New widget: Dialog, Tooltip? WxWidgets support?

Nicholas Steinberg <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:49:18 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.y.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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