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[!RebGUI] A lightweight alternative to VID
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Ashley 6-Nov-2005 [2345] | Only one layout needed as the compose would be within a func (i.e. dynamically built as opposed to static). nowrap option? Do you have a VID example, havn't used that VID option myself. |
Graham 6-Nov-2005 [2346x4] | I think it's just area 200x40 nowrap |
Not sure I understand what you mean about compose being within a func. | |
Perhaps you could allow this radio "blah" data [ none "1" "2" "3" ] to indicate no choice as an option. | |
currrently it creates an extra button labelled "none" | |
Ashley 6-Nov-2005 [2350x2] | What's wrong with the current behaviour? e.g.: radio "blah" data [ "1" "2" "3" ] |
Compose within a func: show-my-display: has [ blk ] [ blk: load ... display "" compose/deep [ ... ] ] | |
Graham 6-Nov-2005 [2352x2] | So, what do you do if the user did not previously select an option in a radio group? |
That () within the data block has to be removed. | |
Ashley 6-Nov-2005 [2354] | I see the problem. Perhaps radio-group should treat none and / or 0 as "no selection" as well? |
Graham 6-Nov-2005 [2355] | yes please. |
Ashley 6-Nov-2005 [2356] | nowrap option not supported as that would require a horizontal scroll bar. Of the many scroll areas I have looked at, especially online, only a small percentage are of the nowrap type. It has been my experience that users (especially those familiar with Office type products) expect wrap in these cases. |
Graham 6-Nov-2005 [2357x3] | Ok, let me explain. |
I have a table with one field ( the last one ) with approx 100 - 1000 chars in it. I only want to display the first x characters, but it displays with the field wrapped if there are any cr in the text. | |
I was thinking I was going to have to have a real table holding the data, and one for display purposes. | |
Ashley 6-Nov-2005 [2360] | What if the table widget had a "flatten" type option that did a replace/all CR on your data? |
Graham 6-Nov-2005 [2361x4] | yeah, that would be good. |
no....! | |
I need the data as it is ... | |
I just want to not have it wrap inside a single line. | |
Ashley 6-Nov-2005 [2365] | Let me rephrase: if it did a replace/all on the *displayed* data. |
Graham 6-Nov-2005 [2366x2] | Ahh, well, that would be fine. |
what determines the size of the bar ? Sometimes I see it go half way across a layout, and sometimes fully across. | |
Ashley 7-Nov-2005 [2368] | As widgets are placed a max-width value is kept. At the point a bar is placed its width, unless otherwise specified, is assigned the "current" max-width. For the typical case, where a bar appears on a line by itself and further lines will not increase in width, this is fine. In other cases, like a bar in the middle of a line, you should give it an explicit width. |
Graham 8-Nov-2005 [2369x2] | Just wondering if it would be useful to allow rebgui and vid to operate together. So, you could do all the easy stuff that rebgui allows you to do, and when you needed something it couldn't do, then to use Vid instead. |
Is the drop down list of a fixed size? Can that be made proportional to the bounding functional group or window? | |
Ashley 8-Nov-2005 [2371] | RebGUI and VID should work together as is. I've tried to avoid word name / context clashes for this very reason. Following should work: display "" [button "VID" [view/new layout [btn "Unview" [unview]]]] |
Graham 8-Nov-2005 [2372] | request-dir ? request-file ? |
james_nak 8-Nov-2005 [2373] | Ashley, btw, I've been experimenting with RebGui for project I'm working on and it is quite nice. Thanks for your efforts. |
Ashley 8-Nov-2005 [2374x2] | Drop-list height is currently set to "min 5 length? items" lines. This should probably by extended to include the bounding face and the 5 should probably be designer configurable. |
Thanks for the feedback James. ;) | |
Graham 8-Nov-2005 [2376] | RebGui is very nice .. but we also want perfect :) |
Ashley 8-Nov-2005 [2377] | Agreed! Any other clashes / issues apart from request-* just list them here. |
Graham 8-Nov-2005 [2378] | Ashley, did you see the ComLib stuff .. no need to interface with AbiWord ! |
Ashley 8-Nov-2005 [2379x2] | I'm also coming around to your POV on table data format (each row being a block) as that allows non-displayable columns to be present. (I'll probably add a "blocked" type option to RebDB for my own purposes) |
Has anyone tested it against AbiWord yet? Does it let you insert (and scale?) images into a new document? | |
Graham 8-Nov-2005 [2381x2] | I've got round that by using a column width of .001. It doesn't even create a divider in the table heading. |
if used as the first columns. I.e. I stuff all the non displayed columns at the front of column definition, and make their widths .001 | |
Ashley 8-Nov-2005 [2383] | Interesting solution. ;) |
Graham 8-Nov-2005 [2384x2] | Yeah, just changed all my sql statements :) |
table/selected currently returns the data selected ? | |
Ashley 8-Nov-2005 [2386] | That's right. Use picked for row numbers, selected for the actual values. |
Graham 9-Nov-2005 [2387] | I find a frequent need in other applications to close down popup windows with the escape key. So, perhaps an option like this for RebGui windows? |
Pekr 9-Nov-2005 [2388] | I have not looked into RebGUI styles in detail yet, but what are the options to "skin" them? Or to do them (styles) in different colors etc.? |
Graham 9-Nov-2005 [2389] | none that i am aware of. |
Pekr 9-Nov-2005 [2390] | no global settings for hover color etc., right? |
Graham 9-Nov-2005 [2391] | hover ? |
Pekr 9-Nov-2005 [2392] | hover (css language) = hilite/mouse-over ... |
Ashley 9-Nov-2005 [2393] | CTX-REBGUI/COLORS is an object of value: window tuple! 236.233.216 widget tuple! 244.243.238 edge tuple! 127.157.185 edit tuple! 255.255.255 over tuple! 255.205.40 menu tuple! 49.106.197 btn-up tuple! 200.214.251 btn-down tuple! 216.232.255 btn-text tuple! 77.97.133 CTX-REBGUI/EDIT is an object of value: ... tabbed block! length: 5 hilight-on-focus block! length: 2 caret-on-focus block! length: 4 action-on-enter block! length: 3 ... ctx-rebgui/widgets/set-sizes unit-size font-size Plus many widgets have various option flags to control some aspect of their behavior. Probably not skinning in the true sense but enough to change basic scale, colors and behaviors to cover the major use cases as they have been presented to me thus far. Skinning that lets you change "look & feel" to the extent that the GUI can mimic native Windows, OSX, C64, etc could be done but at what price in complexity and delivery time? And what percentage of folks would just stick with the default look & feel anyway. Another way of saying this is to ask whether it is a good idea to put 80% of your effort into satisfying the needs of 5% of your user-base? |
Graham 9-Nov-2005 [2394] | function before looks please! |
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