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

tooltips should be properties, not widgets. you should set like
"tooltipText" for your button and Y handles it automagically.

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:56:05 -0500, James Harr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> James Harr <[email protected]>
> http://www.grickle.org/
> 
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