On 20 March 2000, you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[...]
> I would be interested to hear your thoughts on how to select maintainers
> (no more than two) for vtcl. It may be obvious to those who track the list
> in which case nominations are in order (or nominate yourself).
>
> A word or two on the 1.3 source base. As it stands, 1.3 runs and saves
> but cannot re-load a project it has saved. I began to change the file
> format to something more modular. The UI has changed significantly. I was
> working on a tabbed panel for preferences and pluggable icon/widget bars.
> Do not use 1.3 unless you want to a) kick the tires or b) write code to
> fix it. Option 'b' will require a bit of investment to understand the code.
> My apologies that is it not better commented.
>
> I hope to sort out the hosting/maintenance situation in the next few
> weeks. Thanks for your patience.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stewart
Hello everyone,
I post this because I see there is growing interest in extending vtcl,
and I am precisely working on this since two or three months. It would
be sad to begin work for features I am working on (well, somewhat),
for which everybody is interested in.
Unfortunately I have not had much time for it (mostly 2 or 3 week-ends),
but here is the changes I have planned/started:
- Work from 1.3.0,
- Tab panel for preferences,
- finish multi-file support,
- Project manager,
- Image manager,
- Font manager
The project manager would show a hierarchical view of the project files,
procedures, toplevels, images, fonts, ... this already unifies the
procedures and toplevels windows. I am wondering whether also
integrating the widgets tree inside... I currently consider it would be
too heavy, so I don't plan it.
My current coding status is:
- Integrated tree, tab panel and scrollable window widgets of mine
in vtcl source tree (for me they seem to be MUCH faster than
canvas based versions of them)
- Made the project manager window, and integrated it in vtcl like
other windows; But it's not filled with project elements yet, and
no actions are implemented (there is an item-specific context
menu).
- minor various corrections (don't ask, I don't remember)
For near future I want to dive in vtcl to find the project elements I
want to send into the project manager. Maybe the tabbed preferences
window is workable in a short time, but since it already works perfect
it's not my priority.
Ok, all this is how _I_ see things and how _I_ would implement them. But
there has been no development on vtcl since a long time and I really
need those features, so I took myself by hand and started it !
Tell me if I'm wrong somewhere...
--
Hope this helps,
Fabien.
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