Re: [Visualoberon-win32] Port of XCal to new VO

[Tim T. <ti...@ed...>]

Hallo!

> I've successfully ported over my XCal to use the new
> VO interfaces.  It seems to work under Windows NT.

That is nice to hear :-) The demos programs should work, at least
within the range of the implemented features.

> There are a few strange things happening such as the
> title for the scroller being overwritten.  I haven't tried
> it yet under Unix.

What do you mean with "title of the scroller"? Do you mean the slider?
This may of course be a drawing or refrshing problem, not yet found.

> BTW, could I get a copy of someone's VO preferences?

I have one for unix, but most of it will not work under Windows, since
it makes uses of images for background and button look. You will have
to some modifications.

> Perhaps this file could be included in future distributions?

Perhaps, since preference can greatly enhance the visual look. Note for
the windows version, that size of most object depends on the font size.
The font that is hardcode is a little bit big, so the dialogs get a
little bit big, too (at least in relation to my 1200x1024 resolution).

> As well, I remember Tim talking about depreciating the
> List and Cycle objects.  I'm still using these in my

Yes, they are obsolete. The will/may compile, but I havn't tested them
for functionality for a long time.

> SimpleGadgets routine.  I take it the Combo object
> replaces the Cycle object?  Why doesn't the Combo

Yes. That is planed. The have the same functionality. But since Combo
make use of table and as such can handle also non-text objects, columns
and is not limited to the number of elements it has major advantages
(however the cycle is close in style to the motif equivalent).

> object work properly -- is this related to the pop-ups
> not working?  I guess the Table object replaces the

The do work with the latest code I send, but it seems like event
handling for it is buggy, since you can only choose an entry when
initialiy opening it and after that no more. Someone has to find the
bug.

> List?

Yes. Since inserting and delting of object should work now, this should
not be a problem.

By the way, is anybody activly doing something on the VO Windows code?

The directory code is OK for me, at least it looks sufficient for a
directory browser. I fear that MvA with a more general look for
usibility will have some suggestions for changes ;-) Also we need
something now, and since the interface is small, it will not be a
problem to later change to another API. For inclusion into VO however
it should work on at least most of the OS/Systems.

--
Gru=DF...
       Tim.