> I remember when I first started using FLTK, this begin()/end()
> thing was mentioned right up front in the docs I was reading.
I've scanned the first two pages of my old FLTK 1.0 docs
and highlighted the paragraph in question:
http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/fltk-old-docs-page-1.png
This looks similar to the current "Writing Your First FLTK Program"
section, which is where I think everyone would start:
FLTK1: http://fltk.org/documentation.php/doc-1.1/basics.html#3_1
FLTK2: http://fltk.org/doc-2.0/html/example1.html
begin()/end() are well described in the FLTK 2.x docs, starting with
the bold section "Creating the Widgets" which talks about begin(),
and "Begin/End of Groups and Windows" talks about end().
However in the current 1.x docs, it seems like the description
of begin()/end() might be missing and should probably be restored.
If the discussion is about the philosophy of begin()/end(),
that's a different thing which is kinda intrinsic to fltk's
design, and it can be liked or hated, apparently. This was
gone over earlier in this thread (which started 4 months ago)
Whenever I design an FLTK program, I'm always thinking about
the begin()/end() stuff, because that defines the widget hierarchy.
As soon as I do an Fl_Window I'm thinking of the implied begin()
in fltk1, and what little I've done with FLTK2, I know the begin()
must be explicitly specified to use the begin/end stuff, otherwise
you'd have to use add() to define the hierarchy, which I personally
like to avoid, and rarely use.
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