From: Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject: About GUI's
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:05:43 +0200
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I'm allmost finished with XGUI. I discovered limitations in design
(what design? I started with a button and built the rest on top of that
:) and the next version (after finishing this one) will be more
thoughtfully designed from the beginning.
So, what is a GUI supposed to do anyways? What is the best way of
designing one? What objects should it provide (XGUI 0.5 has text
buttons,bitmapped buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, panels, bitmaps,
line edit, progress bars, hidden and visible list boxes, windows.
I plan adding menus, labels (text thing) and edit window (text) before
shipping version 1.0 beta).
How is the user supposed to interact with it? Or the objects created by
the user?
(Of course I'm asking your opinion on how it would be best to do all of
these. XGUI allready does all that but I find it somewhat limited)
TIA,
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