[ELPA] New package: slider-widget

[ELPA] New package: slider-widget

[Ian Dunn]

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I'd like to submit slider-widget to ELPA.  It's just a small package that adds support for an interactive slider widget.

If there are no issues, I can push it straight to ELPA.


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Ian Dunn

Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ian Dunn <dunni@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:02:52 -0500
> 
> I'd like to submit slider-widget to ELPA.  It's just a small package that adds support for an interactive slider widget.

Thanks.

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> ;; 20%: ----[]-------------- (b: 2, a:7)
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Any plans for making it more graphically-looking on GUI frames?

Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget

[Ian Dunn]

    Eli> Any plans for making it more graphically-looking on GUI frames?

Not yet.  How do you mean "more graphically-looking"?  Different characters to make it look like an unbroken line, or an actual graphical object (like we have for buttons)?

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Ian Dunn

Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ian Dunn <dunni@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:25:40 -0500
> 
> 
>     Eli> Any plans for making it more graphically-looking on GUI frames?
> 
> Not yet.  How do you mean "more graphically-looking"?  Different characters to make it look like an unbroken line, or an actual graphical object (like we have for buttons)?

The latter.  We should try to make Emacs modern-looking, which means
showing fancy, good-looking icons and small images instead of "ASCII
art", wherever possible and reasonable.  The ASCII fallback is fine
for TTY frames, of course.

Thanks.

Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget

[joakim]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Ian Dunn <dunni@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:25:40 -0500
>> 
>> 
>>     Eli> Any plans for making it more graphically-looking on GUI frames?
>> 
>> Not yet.  How do you mean "more graphically-looking"?  Different characters to make it look like an unbroken line, or an actual graphical object (like we have for buttons)?
>
> The latter.  We should try to make Emacs modern-looking, which means
> showing fancy, good-looking icons and small images instead of "ASCII
> art", wherever possible and reasonable.  The ASCII fallback is fine
> for TTY frames, of course.

I did a POC of graphical gtk sliders in the xwidget branch. I remember
there being some redrawing issues, but it sort of worked otherwise.

>
> Thanks.
>
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Joakim Verona
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Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget

[Ian Dunn]

    >> From: Ian Dunn <dunni@gnu.org> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Date: Mon, 19 Feb
    >> 2018 14:25:40 -0500
    >> 
    >> 
    Eli> Any plans for making it more graphically-looking on GUI frames?
    >> 
    >> Not yet.  How do you mean "more graphically-looking"?  Different
    >> characters to make it look like an unbroken line, or an actual graphical
    >> object (like we have for buttons)?

    Eli> The latter.  We should try to make Emacs modern-looking, which means
    Eli> showing fancy, good-looking icons and small images instead of "ASCII
    Eli> art", wherever possible and reasonable.  The ASCII fallback is fine for
    Eli> TTY frames, of course.

    Eli> Thanks.

Seems doable to use images instead of background/cursor strings for graphical displays, then fall back on text for text displays (or if the user/developer didn't specify images).

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Ian Dunn

Re: [ELPA] New package: slider-widget

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-02-19 14:25, Ian Dunn wrote:
> Different characters to make it look like an unbroken line

I often use whitespace with the :strike-through property for that.