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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:27:27 MST
From: "David Harrison" <david@byrd.ba.msi.com>
Message-Id: <9607101011.ZM11176@byrd.ba.msi.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:11:45 -0700
In-Reply-To: Ralph Griswold <ralph@cs.arizona.edu>
"Re: vidget programming" (Jul 10, 8:10am)
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To: Ralph Griswold <ralph@cs.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: vidget programming
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On Jul 10, 8:10am, Ralph Griswold wrote:
> Subject: Re: vidget programming
> You cannot easily (feasibly) manipulate vidgets in a VIB-produced
> interface.
>
> The vidgets themselves are difficult to use and modify. There is
> documentation, but it is not up to date and probably would be more
> hindrance than help.
>
> We do not support the vidgets per-se and cannot provide techincal
> support for them.
Maybe my question was too general. I don't intend to change fundamental
aspects of a vidget at runtime (i.e., geometry or the number of vidgets).
I want to change things like the minimum/maximum/spot of a scroll bar or
the text displayed by an edit text vidget. I assume this must be
possible. A scroll bar is not very useful if you can't change its
minimum/maximum values when the information inside the controlled
space changes.
After further investigation, I noticed that the vidget source is
in the Icon Programming Library. I think I will poke around there
and see if I can discover the common vidget programming idioms.
>From the tone of your message, I detect a slight distaste for
vidgets. Out of curiousity, is the Icon group working on a new
interface for doing graphic interfaces?
--
David Harrison, Molecular Simulations
(david@ba.msi.com)