ex11, esdl

[Joe Armstrong]

I've put the latest version of ex11 in my

http://www.sics.se/~joe/work_in_progress/

directory.

Note this is *packed* with goodies - try my mini emacs

In particular look at the swEmacs and swColorText widgets

I'd really like a "stand-alone" swColorText widget (using gdk)

The "three widgets" I'd like are

    - a text widget.

 	treats text as an X,Y grid,

 	goPut(X, Y, FGCOlor, BGColor, "string")

         this displays "string" at X,Y with the given colors

 	it also traps mouse clicks and sends you a message to say
         the X,Y of the mouse, and it traps and sends you
         keypress messages, and window resize messages

     With this I can implement emacs, windowing systems, ...
sure it "old fashioned text mode" but it's really useful and easy to use.

    - a canvas

 	Like the text, but I can draw lines cirecles, put images etc.

    - a MDI

 	A containing widget (Multiple document interface) this is
the "desktop" widget that I can embed canvas and text widgets

    Given those three I can build a really nice easy to use system

    Now I can do this  in ex11 - but not natively in widdows etc.



On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Eric Merritt wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:28:04 +0200 (CEST), Joe Armstrong <joe@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> Re: edsl ex11 etc.
>>
>> Just my 5 c.
>>
>>    1) I'm not sure  I've published my latest ex11 - it  has a *lot* of
>> functionality which I'm  not sure can be bolted on  top of a different
>> graphics engine.
>
> You are right. When last I looked at this (I recently moved and am
> still getting things together, I will get back to it soon), the x11
> stuff was pretty widespread through out the code. It becomes more a
> matter of taking your ideas and rebuilding them on a different
> backend.
>
>>
> [snip good stuff from joe.]
>
> two questions joe, or more specifically a question and a statement ;)
>
> You said that 3 widgets where required but you only named two of
> them, whats the third?
>
>  Why use sockets to communicate via low level and high level widgets?
> Why not just use standard erlang constructs?

Did I say that? - I don't understand.

>
> thanks,
> eric
>
>> /Joe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Eric Merritt" <cyberlync@REDACTED>
>>>>  Actually, with imput from Dan and Karl I am making use of a gl
>>>> specific backend that they are working on for wings. It  doesn't yet
>>>> have  multiple windows, but thats a future item they want. Better yet
>>>> it should be more stable and robust then the SDL engine.
>>>
>>> Hmm, that sounds interesting! And it's platform independent too?
>>>
>>> After answering your previous mail, I started to look at adding SDL_ttf
>>> support to esdl, which doesn't seem too difficult, thanks to the nice design
>>> that Dan made. Now I don't know if it's going to be worth it, is something
>>> else is coming reasonably soon.
>>>
>>> Could Dan or anyone comment? Can this new backend be made available?
>>>
>>> /Vlad
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> I'm a programmer, I don't have to spell correctly; I just have to
> spell consistently
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