addFoo, drawFoo, fillFoo

I've been thinking a bit about the addFoo methods (such as
Menu.addCommand) and I think perhaps the fact that they don't let you
give any layout arguments etc. is OK. They will be shortcuts that are
mainly meant for other things (such as menu items, and, as I'll get to
in a minute, drawing components) but to place things you can always
use absolute coordinates; e.g:

  win.addButton(text='foobar', geometry=(0, 0, 100, 10))

Of course, if we introduce layout attributes in the components, you
could do stuff like

  win.addButton(..., hstretch=True)

etc. too... Anyway, this sort of thing is also suited (I think) to the
graphics API. Let's say the basic API is like this:

  circle = Circle(center=(0,0), radius=10, stroke=1)
  canvas.add(circle)

Then you could use the following as a shortcut:

  canvas.addCircle(center=(0,0), radius=10, stroke=1)

or even

  canvas.drawCircle(center=(0,0), radius=10)

If, instead of stroke=1 we have fill=1 (not sure about this detaul --
I was just thinking of Boolean flags here) then we could use

  canvas.fillCircle(center=(0,0), radius=10)

as another shortcut.

This leaves us with a straightforward drawing API, yet the core API is
still as simple as before, using properties and containment (through
add()).

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland                                  The Anygui Project
http://hetland.org                                  http://anygui.org


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