Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me the main point of the paper is to build the interface using WYSIWYG editor style, and the particulars of positioning are secondary. User interfaces relying on absolute positioning of widgets are very simple, but they are a nightmare for accessibility and localization. The paper is nice, but very outdated.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 22:37 Paul Dufresne <[email protected]> wrote: > Since I did read that paper: http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Toolkit.pdf > in the late nineties, > once every few years I try to convince someone to write an implementation > of that idea for me > because I am too lazy to do so myself. > > Seeing the code of HelenOS having direct x,y coordinates with "FIXME: > Auto layout", it make me thinks about > that idea once again. So maybe that Auto layout thing is not written yet, > and you would be more open to read > that paper... than all the others I failed to convince to do it before. > > There is a very light possibility I even try to do it myself. > > I remember that the author had made a version in Modula 3 back then... > back then Modula 3 was a very > very large program for my computer. I might try to find this back. > > > _______________________________________________ > HelenOS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.modry.cz/listinfo/helenos-devel >
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