Hi, Dan, great news that you're putting a commercial widget-pack on the market, and nice that it's free for personal use. It's this kind of approach that will allow dynAPI to be used by people who are less acquainted with the inner-workings of DynAPI.
Only problem I see, is how to avoid discussions about replicated functionality in free widgets, for instance, I have been using outline-dragging with skin-windows for almost a year now in my own work, but because it was intranet-based, and didn't need to be cross-browser, I never released any of the widgets (no time either), so if I now released a skinwindow with outline-dragging, it would look like I had copied this idea from Dan's widgets. (I actually copied it from windows) So Dan, how do you see this working out? what happens if your widget-pack contains some nice ideas (design or code-wise) that are taken up in free widgets afterwards? (purposely or accidentally ). Also, are there no copyright issues when replicating the windows 98/XP interface? I think we still need basic building-block widgets with the dynAPI release, mostly for testing the code with, and aside from that it would be great if other people could build widget-packs, using the architecture of their choice, and in separate branches in the CVS (without modifying the core dynAPI files). I'd say, make a plan, do the ground-work, and then contact Jordi about opening a new CVS branch. Cheers, Richard. _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
