Re: dialog.el v0.1

Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Richard Stallman]

    ;;; dialog.el --- dialog box interface using widgets, frames and windows

What mechanism does this use to display the dialogs?
Does it put them in Emacs buffers?

Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

>     ;;; dialog.el --- dialog box interface using widgets, frames and windows
>
> What mechanism does this use to display the dialogs?
> Does it put them in Emacs buffers?
>   

Yes, it uses the widget package to create buttons, editable fields, etc.

It displays the buffer in a window or in a frame.

It provides a mechanism to navigate through dialogs.

Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Richard Stallman]

    Yes, it uses the widget package to create buttons, editable fields, etc.

That is a step in the right direction, but we would really lie the
next step: to make GTK dialogs.

Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Yes, it uses the widget package to create buttons, editable fields, etc.
> 
> That is a step in the right direction, but we would really lie the
> next step: to make GTK dialogs.


I just looked at the license for wxWidgets again. It looks to me like it 
is usable here:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets

Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Miles Bader]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> I just looked at the license for wxWidgets again. It looks to me like it
> is usable here:
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets

Since emacs already supports GTK, which offers widgets, it would seem
silly to use wxwidgets (which is something else entirely)...

-Miles

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Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Miles Bader writes:

 > Since emacs already supports GTK, which offers widgets, it would seem
 > silly to use wxwidgets (which is something else entirely)...

It's not totally useless; wxWidgets is already ported to and mature on
several platforms that Emacs runs on, including GTK.

Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Miles Bader]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
>  > Since emacs already supports GTK, which offers widgets, it would seem
>  > silly to use wxwidgets (which is something else entirely)...
>
> It's not totally useless; wxWidgets is already ported to and mature on
> several platforms that Emacs runs on, including GTK.

Well not _completely_ useless, but it's yet-another-completely-
different-toolkit-to-support (it uses, e.g., GTK, but it's not
compatible with GTK).  I've heard a lot of complaints about wxwidgets,
so I'm wary of having any actual dependency on it.

-Miles

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Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Richard Stallman]

    I just looked at the license for wxWidgets again. It looks to me like it 
    is usable here:

       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets

I don't know any details about WxWidgets, but the idea is not
ridiculous.  A feature to support creation of dialogs
would be much more useful if it is not limited to GTK.

Re: dialog.el v0.1

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

>     Yes, it uses the widget package to create buttons, editable fields, etc.
>
> That is a step in the right direction, but we would really lie the
> next step: to make GTK dialogs.
>   

widget package handle all low level stuff for deal with buttons, fields, 
etc., but only in a buffer.

dialog package uses widget package, probably, if widget package is 
changed to use GTK, dialog package (and other packages) will benefit 
from this.

dialog package simplifies the use of widget, as the easymenu package 
simplifies the menu creation/management.