And damn these look nice!!! http://amsn.sourceforge.net/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=GUI+Team+Sandbox
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:35:00AM -0500, Youness Alaoui wrote: > Yeah, I agree, BLT would be great, I just don't know the level of > compatibility we have with BLT. I quickly read the man > page and it seems it's a "non-editable text widget" so it seems you can't add > text to it, but only use $htext configure > -text "..." > > I think that if I'm right, it's a very bad idea to use that for the chat > window as it needs to insert text everytime and > because it can get huge, which will be a huge performance issue everytime you > add new text to it... > > I also wasn't able to find the option for having a background image..looking > at the demo provided with blt, it seems to > be set by using the options set command on htext.tile but that line was > commented.. why ? maybe it's because it's > buggy... anyways, the option is probably -tile, but it's undocumented... > > About bugs, I opened up wishblt.exe and sourced htext.tcl from the demos and > wish just crashed... looking at SF, it > seems the last release was in 2002. Humm.. just as I thought the project was > dead, I took a look at CVS and I found pretty fast > this : > http://blt.cvs.sourceforge.net/blt/blt/src/bltBind.c?view=diff&r1=text&tr1=1.28&r2=text&tr2=1.27&diff_format=h > looks like some coding has been done, and it's 13 days old, so the project > isn't dead, the last commit on bltHtext.c > was 2 months ago, but nothing significant... anyways, I wonder how far from > stable the CVS is... maybe talking to the > original author might help us in knowing that information. > > Also, it doesn't seem to have any tag support or anything, so it's quite > tricky.. I don't know how we could have the > 'clickable' text (for urls for example, or accept/reject FT...) for images, > we can't embed them, but we could embed a > label that contains those images... > I think if we were to do this, it would be best if we used it for the CL, so > we can build the contact list in a string, > then pass it to BLT to show it, since we already clear the whole widget > everytime... but I'm still not sure about how > feasable this is :( > > btw.. Tom was working on an implementation of a text widget using canvas or > tkhtml... where's that work ? disappeared > forever? and what's the status ? Tom, could you maybe add that work to SVN in > a new directory or branch or something ? > Also, we did have a bg-enabled CL, I know it was working well, but had some > bugs, then it was dropped.. question is.. > why dropped ? who decided to drop it and what were the reasons.. sorry if I > missed the discussion and I'm reopening it.. > but I'm just wondering why all that work got thrown away ? > > that's it for now, it's already a huge babbling email... > > KKRT > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:56:01AM +0100, Boris Faure (aka billiob) wrote: > > I agree about BLT. > > > > About Transparency, it seems it's a mess, since no package is working > > on all platforms. And that's a pity. > > > > On 11/30/06, Jonne Zutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Great. I think we should do it! Users have asked many times already > > > whether they could have a background on their chatwindow. > > > Would make a nice feature for new version of amsn ;) > > > Perhaps as part of Chameleon, if no hacks are necessary outside of > > > Chameleon in that case. > > > > > > JeeBee. > > > > > > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 00:04 -0500, Youness Alaoui wrote: > > > > Hey there, > > > > I was looking at an old tracker item I once created (in 2003) for aMSN > > > > on tk-toolkit, here is the link > > > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=802296&group_id=12997&atid=362997 > > > > On now that we changed our philosophy (of amsn having nothing compiled > > > > in it), I thought we could go with such a > > > > solution.. look here : http://wiki.tcl.tk/199 > > > > You see the text widget with a background ? it's a hypertext widget > > > > actually, here's the man page : > > > > http://www-bio3d-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr/doclib/blt/htext.html > > > > So how about we change the chatwindow and CL text widgets to use that > > > > ?? maybe the CL would be difficult because it uses > > > > fancy stuff, but the chat window doesn't do anything, I'm sure it's > > > > doable (the only problem I would see is concerning > > > > smileys being elided (needed for the copy/paste of smileys) > > > > If we can modify that, it would be great! > > > > > > -- > > Boris FAURE (aka billiob) > > mail, msn : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. > > However, a large number of electrons were terribly > > agitated. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. 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