Le lundi 01 mai 2006 à 11:44 -0700, Bill Janssen a écrit : > > - list controls > > Not sure what you mean here.
A control which displays and allows to interact with several lines of widgets (e.g. labels, images...). For example a buddy list in an Instant Messaging client. > > - menu hotkeys (e.g. Alt+F to open File menu) > > Menus already support "keyboard equivalents". > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/version/Doc/Menu.html Yes but it is not the same. "keyboard equivalents" are global key shorcuts. You cannot assign a global key shortcut to every command, while you can assign a local hotkey to any menu item. It is critical for accessibility: people must be able to navigate menus entirely with the keyboard. (it can be practical for advanced users too ;-)) The traditional API for this is to use an ampersand in the command label: "&File" means the "File" menu can be accessed with Alt+F, and "&Save" means that, when in the "File" menu, you can access the "Save" command by hitting S. (as a side-effect, this makes local hotkeys i18n-dependent: the French version of "&Save" is often "&Enregistrer"). > > - status bars > > Why isn't that a label? > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/version/Doc/Label.html > > You must mean something other than what I'm thinking. Are you referring > to an animated progress bar, perhaps? Well, a status bar is a container which can contain many things and sits at the bottom of the window. It may have support for a resizing handle too. Think about your Web browser: at the bottom, a text label for the current URL (or "loading", whatever), a progress bar for when something is being fetched over the network, an togglable indicator of on-line/off-line status, and a clickable lock icon to view the security dialog. It can probably be implemented using a Container, though. > I see that when I use "sticky" appropriately, the few small test cases > I've tried seem to resize the way I think they should. In wxWidgets, the GUI system is able to calculate the minimal size needed by each and any widget, and to prevent the user from resizing the window below the calculated minimal size. Without this feature, widgets disappear or overlap (depending on their "sticky" flag) when you make the window too small. Two other things I just noticed: - tab-key navigation (navigating among controls by using Tab and Shift-Tab) should be handled automatically. Right now it seems you have to manually define "groups" for tab-key navigation to work. - context menus (e.g. on right click). All that is not to say that "PyGUI s*cks" (it doesn't seem to ;-)), but that there are a few important things lacking compared to more mature (and possibly bloated!) GUI systems. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
