Re: [Dynapi-Widgetdev] RE: RE: [Dynapi-Help] Widget test Image button menu

[Michael P. <mp...@ph...>]

my cell is just a layer that adds the border effect to make it look more
windozish.  it only effects the base menu canvas.  it does not effect the
indiividual menu items.

Ken Ono wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Thanks for the pointer to the tree widgets.  I hadn't had a look at those
> yet. (I only discovered DYN API last Wednesday - and I've been hooked ever
> since.)
>
> Anyway, that interface is more or less what I was trying to achieve.  It's
> doing things in a slightly different way.  (I think in a better way - but
> I'm not sure yet.)  So essentially my code example was simply defining a
> hierarchical menu structure in a similar way to the various tree examples.
>
> Some of my goals are:
>
> * To be able to build multi-level pull down menus (like Windows applications
> or the microsoft web site)
> * Have a standardized (and extendable) interface for a variety of
> hierarchical selection objects such as pulldown menus, tree selectors,
> outlook sytle menus, bottom based menus, anything imaginable
> * Higher level tools (akin to Razor) could use this common interface afford
> a lot of flexability for skins.  For example, one skin chould have pulldown
> menus.  Another skin could have a slide in tree.  Another skin could have
> lamp posts.
> * As way of quickly wacking out these applications and easily maintaining
> them something like the XML and XSLT example I posted could be used.
>
> Another thought that occurred to me, is that things may be nicely rounded
> out if popup.js used buttonimage.js as its individual choices.  Michael
> Pemberton had a post very similar to this recently that changed popup.js to
> use a cell.js.  A pulldown menu can be a toolbar that aggregates buttons
> that spawn popups that aggregates buttons that spawn popups and so on.
>
> As a general question, is there any good reason that more widgets aren't
> part of the 01-25 release?  One of the more difficult tasks I'm having
> ramping up is knowning what widgets are there, what works with what etc.
> Also, pulling in multiple widgets from multiple people is starting to be
> confusing.  I very much appreciate Richard's ongoing directory standard
> structure efforts.  Are the widgets going to be part of the release in the
> future (and in CVS)?
>
> TTFN
>
> Ken
>
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