Improvements to the toolbox
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Andrew Hodgkinson (6)
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James Peacock (34)
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More gadgets (with ResEd support): tables, trees and nested windows/objects would be nice for a start. As would a 'NetSurf' style status bar object. Improvements to the text area object to support limited styles, colour changes etc. |
Rik Griffin (98)
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Hi, a late followup. I’ve already written a Toolbox “tree” gadget, although I never finished implementing my wish list of features, it’s entirely usable. It doesn’t really require any changes to the OS to develop new gadgets, anyone can write one and distribute the required additions to ResEd etc. However my experience, having developed several gadgets in the past, is that no one really uses them. Perhaps that’s a publicity problem :) |
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James Peacock (34)
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I think the key thing is having them in ResEd and part of the toolbox module distribution, so that they become standards. Cooperation with RISC OS Ltd would be nice in this area, as I understand that they’ve already extended the toolbox in various ways. The last thing anyone needs is two incompatible toolboxes… Actually, I’ve played with your tree gadget in the past, and would use it if I needed such a UI element. As I remember, I would have liked to be able to pass a node handle into things like TreeView_AddNode, rather than relying on the concept of a current node, though I suppose you can do this with TreeView_MoveTo. |
