I think it's a great idea, and also good looking components(like the link you sent) not necessarily needs to use cairo or opengl, I have been playing with just the raw features and I'm satisfied with the results, but I know that it would be better with anti aliasing and transparency :(!
Best regards, J.Marcelo Auler > 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
