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

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 6:49 pm, Nicholas Steinberg wrote:
> 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?).

This is a great feature that will probably be implemented after the server 
architecture more complete. As stated in a previous email, Mark said right 
now most of what's happening is internal changes replacing all of Mark's 
hastily written code for the deadline with some decent thought out code. This 
will take a while, but will be worth having better code.

> 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.

WxWidgets is a great idea, but it's going to have to wait until Y has more 
widgets and is more usable by itself. If by native WxWindows support you mean 
writing another backend for wx (which isn't exactly native, but I think it's 
what you're getting at), great. And things like this will come in due time. 
I'm all for it, but again like I said, I think it's going to be some time 
before development can take off on the client side. A lot of the server core 
is still being written.


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