Re: New widget: Dialog, Tooltip? WxWidgets support?

Yeah! wxWidgets is also my personal favourite! Count my vote on that 
one... :-)

Radek Podgorny



> 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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