Looks like a lot of companies are raising the bar for "nice looking widgets".. check out some of these Flash oriented "web widgets":
http://www.fusioncharts.com/widgets/Gallery.asp Apparently these aren't just toys either.. I've actually seen big film/video production companies using such things in their daily operations. So looks are getting important, apparently. I suppose now that Cairo has been merged into FLTK, these kinds of widgets are now possible in FLTK, ie. gradated widgets that are antialiased and have transparent renderings. And they've got these web widgets animating too; for instance: http://www.fusioncharts.com/Demos/Blueprint/Default.asp ..if you click on the pale blue bars in the upper left graph, or the colored bars in the "Category wise Sales for 1994" graphs, you can see how the other graphs update. This apparently all done with flash as the rendering and animation engine, and XML as the I/O. And I suppose flash's "action script" is doing the 'callbacks' to update the XML to the other graphs. Just thought I'd throw this out there; those of us who design new widgets need to be looking at the future, and I suppose that is it right there. So those of us who are talented at this kind of thing should probably consider creating an organized 'pool' of nicer widgets as a kind of separate 'add on' to fltk. Maybe separate newsgroup for 'widget design' or something, to allow efforts along these lines to be organized to avoid duplicate effort. eg. along the lines of making the equivalent of FLEK, FLEWS, FLMM, FLVW, FLX, FLU, etc.. but as a single effort. Just a thought.. If such a thing looses steam or derails from too many opinions, the only administrative effort was creating a newsgroup ;) _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
