Re: Milestone 1 submission...
Per Abrahamsen <abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk> writes:
wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.ORG> writes:
>
> > At 07:22 PM 4/15/00 -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
> > >hasn't andy already created a bunch of abstract interfaces onto
widgets?
> >
> > Well, extended the glyph syntax is probably more accurate. But the syntax
> > is abstract and does work, even if it is very simple.
>
> I really don't like the thought of writing a complex gui as a bunch of
> glyph instantiators either. For things that will be going in the gutter
> this is doable, but writing something like the `customize' interface from
> sawmill would be ... not fun.
You can write a high-level API on top of a low-level API. This is what
widget.el does, can't you use the widget.el framework to provide a more
convenient interface to a glyph based implementation?
For things that go in buffers, maybe. But this is supposed to be for apps
that are not in a buffer. Adding all the layout managers and things to
widget would be kind of... icky. :) And not readily doable in text mode.
Although if someone ever wrote a text version of this, I'd have to buy them
lots of beer (and probably sedatives).
-bp