Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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The first, and most obvious, thing that GUI builders do is force the
developer to specify an exact position - if not size - for the
graphical elements of the UI.
They do? I don't remember them doing that. I just downloaded SpecTcl
(a oldish
Bruce Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
The first, and most obvious, thing that GUI builders do is force the
developer to specify an exact position - if not size - for the
graphical elements of the UI.
They do? I don't remember them doing
I think you missed looking at several GUI builders. I have not used a
GUI builder in 5 years that had you nail down positions.
Swing(for Java), GTK, Qt, and wxWidgets(to a lesser degree) all use a
sizer metaphore. You lay out he sizers and put your widgets in
various sizer layouts. This means
Chris Lambacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you need to step out of the age of Motif and MFCs and look at
what modern toolkits and GUI designers have to offer before you start
in on a rant.
Yeah, pretty much every fancy web page designer these days uses
graphic tools like Dreamweaver or
Mike Meyer:
The obvious solution would be for the system to detect all these
environmental factors, and scale the applications
accordingly. However, things like viewing distance and the quality of
my eyesight are hard to detect automatically, and it would be a pain
to have to enter all those
