Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template? Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start...
Yours Truly, Scott Pledger On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 22:39, Kohei Yoshida <kyosh...@novell.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:29 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: > > Kohei, > > > > Good to know! I haven't yet taken too close of a look at the code for LO, > so > > I don't know any of the particulars of the back-end as of yet, but that's > > next on my to-do list! > > > > Quick question: Where can I find documentation on VCL?? > > Well, that's a bit hard to come by. ;-) We do have some code > documentation but it may not be what you'd expect. > > http://docs.libreoffice.org/vcl/html/classes.html > > It's generated by crawling the source code directly and picking up the > doxygen style comments. These are very low level details of the VCL > code, and if you are looking for a high-level overview, we don't have > any (that I'm aware of). > > > I think that having > > a better understanding of what our rendering library is currently capable > of > > can really help with UI improvements... > > I can tell you it's very very limited. With VCL, you have to specify > the size and position of each and every control at pixel level, and > there is no automatic layout support that most modern GUI toolkits > support. For instance, to create a simple dialog with OK and Cancel > button, you need to define > > Dialog: size = (200, 150) > > OK Button: pos = (10, 180); size = (80, 15) > Cancel Button: pos = (100, 180); size = (80, 15) > > and so on. It's painful enough to design a very simple dialog, imagine > how much pain it would incur when designing a complex one... > > But don't let this implementation limitation distract your design work. > Sometimes it's better you don't know the implementations. ;-) > > Kohei > > -- > Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc > <kyosh...@novell.com> > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
