[Pythoncard-users] Sizers and Layout

[Peter C. <pe...@pe...>]

At 06:38 PM 9/2/2001 -0700, pyt...@li... 
wrote:
>After we are happy with our Font implementation I will be getting more into
>sizers. I already have an idea how we might implement them so that their
>description would be relatively easy to grasp.

I just checked out the sizers demo that came with wxWindows and I'm very 
impressed - I wish I had that kind of control in the HTML world.  I can see 
they would be a huge asset to PythonCard - if they could be made 
understandable and approachable.  Seems to me an interactive, drag-and-drop 
sizer editor would make all the difference in the world.  I'll probably get 
some ideas for an editor once my own stacks come far enough along to need 
sizers.

>There is actually quite a lot of work going into the wxHTML control for
>wxWindows and even in the upcoming wxWindows/wxPython 2.3.2 it will be much
>more capable than the one available today. We won't be able to do a GUI
>layout editor that uses HTML, that is simply too complicated, but we will
>probably be able to support the use of HTML with embedded widgets for
>layouts sometime in the future if somebody wants to go that route.

That's fantastic - I have been thinking all along that HTML would be a nice 
way to Python output, simply because it's familiar and has so many tools 
these days.  But I assumed I would have to build it to emulate a web server 
(Ugh) and couple it to Internet Explorer (Double-Ugh).  A wxHTML control 
with embedded widgets would be perfect, especially for generating dynamic 
interface elements at run-time.  Perhaps it could use Action Sheets (as 
described in W3C NOTE-AS-19980619) as way to associate the 
handlers.   <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-AS>  That would be a nice tidy 
package if you ask me.