OpenEuphoria

Re: widgets

• Posted by tacitus <indor at PRIMUS.COM.AU> Oct 30, 2000
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jiri
thanks for detailed response. i'll just deal with a few things generally
here and i'll get in touch by private email about the documentation project.
i think the lack of interest in the widgets is partly due to the fact that
they are hard to use. i'll suggest a staged plan of attack for the
documentation so they become more user-friendly soon, without involving too
much commitment.
most of my other queries were actually directed at this issue - the widgets
becoming more friendly.
i don't understand why the user's default display settings would be
irrelevant to a dos programmer. what i had in mind is that the defaults
could be set so that a widget program looked and operated just like
windows, so the user would feel immediately comfortable.
i wasn't really thinking of interrogating the hardware. i thought that
windows had these hardware settings stored somewhere, and it would be just
a matter of ransacking the windows system files to locate it. i think
user.dat has some of them. if i change my monitor, windows sometimes tells
me, so presumably it has the current monitor properties recorded (but on
second thoughts, this probably only directs it to the correct drivers, not
the resolution options).
your point about the font demonstrates that different people like different
fonts and sizes - it would be nice to be able to find their preference on
their system - but good defaults are also important. because i liked a lot
of the defaults, it meant i could worry about other things on my program.
my point about the tilde was along the same lines - that for the reader or
edit box, the default should be hilite off (although i hadn't figured out
how to do it).
i thought your one-liner for the radio buttons was really neat (i wouldn't
have thought of it in a million years) but if i'm not mistaken the concept
would only work for 2 buttons. my first effort involved 4 buttons, and then
my code looked quite amateurish. by wrapping these things in chocolate,
more people will want to taste them.
i'll be in touch - may also comment on your little major bidding system.
cheers, tacitus