At Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:02:04 -0800 Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On 02/ 2/13 01:56 PM, Gabriel Duarte wrote: > > I already got window and button widgets working, and now I would like > > to write a text input box, but I have no idea how to start. If someone out > > there have advices, example code, etc etc, I would be very glad. > > The best advice we can give you is to use an existing toolkit. > Correctly handling all the different languages, writing systems, > accessibility helpers, etc. is a multi-year project to write, debug, > and make useful, and one that people have already done for you. And if you are too impatient for that, just use Tcl/Tk. Tcl is a basic scripting language that comes with a basic GUI toolkit. One that you can play with *interactively*. Once you have Tcl/Tk installed (under Linux it is just a matter of # Red Hat flavored (RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Fedora) yum install tcl tk # Debian flavored (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) apt-get install tcl tk ), you can do this ('%'=shell prompt): % wish pack [entry .e] and presto, a text input box. A slightly more exciting example: % wish pack [entry .e] -side left pack [buttom .b \ -text "Hit me" \ -command {puts "You entered: '[.e cget -text]'"}] -side right The packages *should* come with man pages. Also: visit http://wiki.tcl.tk/ for lots of fun stuff. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com