1. Llama Emulated Controls
Has anyone taken a look at the latest demo of Llama, with emulated controls
(QPushButton, QRadio, QCheck, etc)? Any opinions?
I've gotten distracted by the Euphoria/Linux release, but I hope to be
implementing a few more complex widgets in the near future, as well as
getting native menus and the tab key working.
It doesn't look like Robert plans to provide a common GUI API for the
different platforms (via something like Zinc or GraphApp), and I don't
really want to try wrapping one of the existing libraries (like wxWindows or
GTK+) - there are too many hassles with callbacks and C macros that don't
map well to Euphoria.
GUI emulation seems the best path to take, and is where I hope to be
concentrating in the next couple of months - especially getting it to run
under X Windows.
-- David Cuny
2. Re: Llama Emulated Controls
David... I assume you mean ex07? If so, the only thing that seems different
is when you make the button press or click the checkbox, the select outline
(dotted outline around the button or around the checkbox text) doesn't
appear. Other than that it performs as expected.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 4:01 AM
Subject: Llama Emulated Controls
>Has anyone taken a look at the latest demo of Llama, with emulated controls
>(QPushButton, QRadio, QCheck, etc)? Any opinions?
>
>I've gotten distracted by the Euphoria/Linux release, but I hope to be
>implementing a few more complex widgets in the near future, as well as
>getting native menus and the tab key working.
>
>It doesn't look like Robert plans to provide a common GUI API for the
>different platforms (via something like Zinc or GraphApp), and I don't
>really want to try wrapping one of the existing libraries (like wxWindows
or
>GTK+) - there are too many hassles with callbacks and C macros that don't
>map well to Euphoria.
>
>GUI emulation seems the best path to take, and is where I hope to be
>concentrating in the next couple of months - especially getting it to run
>under X Windows.
>
>-- David Cuny
3. Re: Llama Emulated Controls
Gary Dumer relied:
>David... I assume you mean ex07? If so, the only thing that seems different
>is when you make the button press or click the checkbox, the select outline
>(dotted outline around the button or around the checkbox text) doesn't
>appear. Other than that it performs as expected.
Actually, in almost *all* the demos, the push buttons, radio buttons and
checkboxes are all emulated controls, instead of native Windows controls. If
you didn't notice that, I guess I'm doing it right.
None of the emulated controls have any concept of focus at the moment, which
is why there is no focus rectangle being drawn on the control. I hope to be
adding focus (and tab-key awareness) to the next release.
Thanks!
-- David Cuny
