Re: [E-devel] E and gui-toolkits.

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:00:59 +0100 Simon TRENY <sim...@fr...>
wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:13:35 GMT,
> "jos...@ju..." <jos...@ju...> wrote :
>=20
> > 	Simon writes:
> >=20
> > > > 	In a slightly different vein.. Is there something like
> > > > the equivalent of e17's modules for the gui-toolkits -- does
> > > > something like that even make sense?
> > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. You can have
> > > loadable widgets from a library, but there is no such things as
> > > "modules" (i.e. plugins that may change the behavior of an Etk
> > > apps). It may be a good idea, but I don't really see a use for
> > > this for now.
> >=20
> > 	Well, let's say 'gui-modules' as loadable libs that would
> > provide additional interesting (but possibly somewhat more specific)
> > functionality than buttons/menus/... For example, et's say we have
> > an "rss" feed module, or a "wether/forecast" one, or just a "clock",
> > ... and that these could be embedded in normal toolkit widgets (in
> > a menu or bar or whatnot).
>=20
> Yes, you can have additionnal widgets (clocks, rss, whatever, ...) in
> loadable libraries. In fact, you can build external widgets because
> you have access to all the methods for this in the Etk headers.

I think this is what raster eventually wants with gadgets.  To embed
them in lots of interesting places apart from shelves.