Re: [Gmod-ajax] Openlazlo

[Eric J. <e-...@no...>]

> My beef with canvas-style immediate-mode (procedural) drawing APIs is
> that while it's easy to draw things with them, it's harder to make those
> things clickable.  I guess you could make each feature its own DrawView,
> which would make it easy to tell which feature was clicked on, but how
> well would that scale?  Or if you had one big DrawView, you could get
> the mouse coordinates from the click event handler and do your own
> hit-testing.  But I'd rather not do hit-testing in javascript if it's
> already been done in C++ for divs.
>
> Also, how is DrawView DHTML implemented for IE?  I'm getting flash for
> the DrawView intro.
>
> Again, though, I'm speaking mainly from ignorance here, from a cursory
> skim of the API docs.  I'd be interested in seeing a DHTML Laszlo app
> with a few thousand on-screen interactive elements.


Hi Mitch,

I have definitely reached my limit in how much I know about
Openlaszlo.  I just wanted to clarify a couple of points about what
was possible with it.   I saw a demo and was impressed, I don't think
it's as limiting as people were originally thinking. I have never used
it or programmed with it.  I think the performance also would be
similar to a home spun DHTML app, because it generates DHTML.

That being said, that's all I really know and  I think you have a much
better handle of your needs in terms of scalability and the
appropriateness of using software such as Openlaszlo for a genome
browser.    Just thought it was worth a gander. I think things on this
list look really great and I am looking forward to the new genome
browser.

Eric





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