Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Re: asl-users: Request for Comments: ASL Picture Widget

[Ralph T. <ra...@gm...>]

On 2/15/06, Sean Parent <sp...@ad...> wrote:
> Specifying the image through the Eve interface to this should be with
> a URL - consider that in the design for the factory.

Ideally what kind of URLs would you want to support? Obviously
"file://" and perhaps "resource://" (for getting data from MacOS
bundle, or directly from the executable's resource section on
Windows).

Ralph

> >
> >> If it is a button - mostly the same comments as above except it
> >> should be part of button_t.
> >
> > I never had any intention of making it behave as if it were a
> > button. It isn't intended to latch out to a command in any way.
> >
> >> If it is an image view (this would be the most ambitious widget) -
> >> then it should bind to an image view. The widget should support at
> >> least pan and zoom (these controls wouldn't need to be bind-able -
> >> but allow them to be bound would let you attach them to the basic
> >> sheet to preserve view state). I can envision all kinds of nice
> >> UI's for this (transparent overlay that comes up when you mouse
> >> over...) - could be slick - we can attempt to work with a UI
> >> designer to design the _last_ preview widget...
> >
> > This was the foundation upon which we began when coming up with the
> > design of the picture widget. I have no qualms about starting
> > simple and working our way up. The reason I began thinking about
> > the picture widget implementation is because I need icon support --
> > if we started there and worked our way forward, I would think it
> > would be a good way to do it.
>
> No disagreement here.
>
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Foster
> >
> >
> > --
> > Foster T. Brereton              <}}}><              Romans 3:21-26
> > A d o b e   S o f t w a r e   T e c h n o l o g y   L a b
> > "What 99 percent of programmers need to know is not how to build
> > components but how to use them." -- Alexander Stepanov
> >
> >