Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Interest in ASL

[Sean P. <sea...@ma...>]

On Sunday, May 10, 2009, at 07:34PM, "Robert Dailey"  
<rcd...@gm...> wrote:

> First, I need to figure out layouts. I need to figure out things  
> like what
> are all of the parameters possible for every single type of widget  
> you can
> create, as well as any other layout-related functions like "column"  
> and
> "row". I did find a wiki
> article<http://stlab.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Layout_Terminology>that
> seems to discuss this, but the formatting of the documentation there
> is
> rather weird and doesn't seem very thorough. What's the best way to  
> figure
> out all of this information? In a way, layouts and sheets are like  
> their own
> API's in a different language from C++, and having a good reference
> documentation for these APIs would be helpful.

That document should be reasonably complete. The layout language has  
very few built in constructs (it doesn't know what a button is) - the  
terminology comes from the binding to the widget set. The layout  
terminology page is intended to keep the clients of the layout library  
consistent.

> Secondly, I need to start writing some C++ eventually. I need to  
> figure out
> where the boundary between the Expression language and C++ is, as  
> well as
> the responsibilities of both. Can you recommend some good tutorials or
> example applications that contain both layout, sheets, and C++? I  
> expect to
> see small programs that implement things like a simple calculator  
> and can be
> compiled from visual studio and executed for testing.

We have lots of test cases - but except for Begin I think they are all  
UI-less. The simplest way to create a working app is to call  
handle_dialog(),

http://stlab.adobe.com/group__modal__dialog__kit.html

Sean


>
> Thanks.