On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > Which look&feel has OpenAmulet? Is the look&feel changeable?
>
> Yes, that's one of the fun points about Amulet. You could change the
> look&feel to Mac, Win and Motif. I don't know, if they enhanced that
> concept to get it kind of themeable.
No themes yet... And the "Mac" look&feel is much a more a "B&W" look and
feel now that MacOS went further... :-)
It is not so easy to develop a new look&feel inside OpenAmulet
(understand: I don't know very well this aspect of the library) but there
are already 3 of them, so I guess it is not so difficult... (But you have
to write code.)
> > That would be nice to have GGI-apps, which can have different looks.
> > e.g. from Windoze-Look over the X11/KDE/GNOME-Look until
> > graphical overkill like transluecent windows... :-)
>
> I assume Amulet should have hooks for that.
It _is_ feasible - and it is really desirable, up to now, the aesthetic of
the library was not really its main asset. But it is satisfactory.
> Though the nicest thing about Amulet was that online property browser that
> allows to inspect and fix broken stuff while debugging (without restarting
> the application) - really helped to shorten development time.
Including when developing the GGI port ! :-)) I found some bugs in LibGWT
thanks to the inspector... :-)
But well, there's still a significant amount of work to do on
OpenAmulet-over-GGI (and LibGWT) before it gets to the final state:
* provide LibXMI support in LibGWT
* use LibXMI from the OpenAmulet drawing back-end
* test&debug the LibGWT "window update events" logic (or possibly the
Amulet handling of such events).
Rodolphe
