Yes.. documentation please.. It would be nice to finally have a"final" widget methodology.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Romianowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 7:23 AM Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI Updates > Hi Raymond, > > >>Will you push your changes to the CVS? > > > > > > Yes I will but not until we have tested the new code > > with Boxfix etc. For the time being you can download > > Dumb question: How to test it? What kind of feedback do > you need? > > > the copy from www.xwisdomhtml.com. It's a copy of what > > I've locally on my pc. > > Ah - I missed the download link (searched a while again but > finally found it ;) > > >>Can I see an example of this? I just got used to the > >>StyleManager-thing ;) > >>But I'm very curious about the new widget design! > > > > > > Sure. Download the version from my site. The problem > > with StyleManager is that it's slower and will only > > complicate things when you want to change the style of > > complex widgets. > > I see the new design. It's much simpler indeed. Integrating the > mouse events is really a step forward I think. The PITA I had > developing widgets with the StyleManager-Stuff was the descision > where to put which code. I think this is really simpler because > you only have one file, one class. > Even though I liked the idea of pluggable styles which implement > other behaviour (flatbutton vs button) I see the much simpler and > straighter design of the new widgets. So I really, really like it. > Even more if I remember the pain I had understanding the StyleManager > in the first place ;) > > Another question: In which way is the StyleManager slower? The problem > I have here is that we developed a huge DHTML-Page with loads of widgets > and I modified the dynapi quite a bit (extended the styles-stuff with > a skin(theme)-manager which comes quite close to the new widget design ;) > and other minor/major changes) so switching would be less fun ;) So I > am curious about the problems with the Stylemanager since we have > performance-problems every now and then and switching to the new design > would take a while (and it will not happen until 3.0 final is out). So > can you give any details or performance hints? > > BTW: When the CVS is in sync again and I have the time here, I will try > to convert some of my widgets (including a full featured cross-browser > Richtext-Editor, ColorChooser and other neat things) to "standard"-dynapi > widgets. > > Last question ;) Do you have any release plan yet? > > Keep up the good work! > > Regards > Peter > > > __ > > Raymond Irving > > > > > >>Regards, > >>Peter > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
