Re: [Libuta-develop] announcing 0.3.18

[Stefanus Du T. <sd...@gm...>]

Cool! Nice to see we're getting forward.

I'm thinking up 0.5.0 thoughts at the moment, will write up something and
draw a few UML diagrams soon.

Some things I wouldn't mind implementing in 0.5.0:
 - proper z-layering
 - rotation (big questionmark, this could be a hassle to do, but would
rule)
 - being able to easily add borders to a widget, switch them around and be
able to address the widget as that containing the border (e.g. when
placing windows) or alternatively just the widget (e.g. when resizing
controls in a bordered window)
 - nicer support for consistent style, e.g. widgets fetch their style from
some kind of central object which determines colours, borders, etc.
 - a cleaner object hierarchy
 - no interface difference in using an image rather than a colour as the
background (and please have clean non-image-based widgets :)
 - a constraints-based widget position & resizing system - perhaps even
the specification of widgets in an arbitrary co-ordinate system to support
any arbitrary viewport size

Anyways, these thoughts are random,

I won't be available for a maximum of 2.5 months from now, but I'll be
there some time.

PS: Karsten, I'm looking forward to seeing you on LinuxTag, looks like I'm
definitely gonna be there, we should talk about it a little more.

Cya,

--
Stefanus Du Toit * WorldForger * Unix Hacker * Open Source Fanatic
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Karsten-Olaf Laux wrote:

> Version 0.3.18
>         * new logo by Uta herself !
>         * fixed Timer class (was not correctly working)
>         * added Focus class and focus handling to Widget class
>           NEW BEHAVIOR: by default a widget does not get focus.
>           Use setClickToFocus(true) or setPointToFocus(true)
>           to enable accepting of focus (all classes derived either from
>           Button or LineEdit have set ClickToFocus to true)
>         * added a check for SMPEG so that the mpeg demos are only build 
>           when SMPG is available
>         * updated keysym.h
> 
> 
> My favorite new feature is the focus handling. Now the default behavior is
> ClickToFocus. So once you have activated a lineedit field it keeps the focus
> even if you move the mouse away ! :) This works for buttons, too.
> 
> You may use TAB (Shift-TAB) to move the focus to the next child widget, which
> is quite nice for dialogs with many editfields and buttons.
> 
> Buttons now react on SPACE or RETURN when posessing the focus. So it is now
> possible to create a dialog and then pass the focus to the OK button:
> okButton->grabFocus()
> Now the user may close the dialog by just pressing RETURN. :)
> 
> 
> Finally the best news: 
> 
> Uta herself has made a new logo for libuta ! 
> I will soon change the icon-header
> file to this new logo and probably update the webpage :)
> I guess that you all agree to keep sdt's banner, as well !
> 
> 
> so far, 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Karsten-O. Laux  (kl...@rh...)         
> 
> 
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