Hi Boleslav, BB> Wwhat's the buzz about widgets? I mean, you can write an BB> application in View as a VID style and call it 'widget'. There's BB> no need for some framework or so. Or am I wrong?
Part of it is "just marketing", but there is also value in providing a few extra features that make it easy to write small apps that follow certain standards (e.g. preferences, remembering last location). In many ways Viewtop is like a widget environment; giving you a way to publish, discover, and launch scripts. So, why haven't more people used it that way? How many of us use it on a daily basis? Would it be enough to add a new bookmark or menu item linking to a dedicated area for these kinds of things? I think we would also need a few tools to help develop, publish, search, and "install" reblets; and is the current layout model effective for this use? Should it auto-start selected (installed) reblets automatically? Should it shut them down automatically as well? These little features, and even imposing constraints on what reblets can do, can actually be empowering IMO, and help foster acceptance. Of course, we can do this ourselves. The Viewtop is open source, and we can probably write most, if not all, of the desired functionality in REBOL. Or someone could write their own. I'm sure I'm not the only one with ideas and notes for just such a project. -- Gregg -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
