Hi Everyone,
A bit of background - Nicolas is in the process of getting his animation
toolkit work, SAT, through an IP review, and I'm working on a proposed
sub-project of Nebula called the Custom Widget Toolkit (CWT) to provide a
home for tools (like SAT) that help us build better widgets.
There has also been some more discussion about the future direction of the
Nebula project itself and how to deal with its scattered release schedule.
Tom has mentioned adding a subproject, called Incubation, that will host new
/ experimental / whatever widgets that are not ready to join a single
unified release schedule. The base Nebula project will then be comprised
only of mature widgets ready to do an official release with a review and
all.
The proposed CWT would be a second subproject:
- Nebula
- Incubation
- CWT
Whether CWT is released in-phase with Nebula or not is something for thought
and discussion.
Nicolas mentioned that he'd like his animation toolkit to be accessible to
more than just Gallery. After looking it over I asked if he'd be
interesting in having it be a part of CWT and he agreed that it seemed to
fit there rather well. Tom then mentioned we should bring this discussion
back to the newsgroup because there are other people here who may like to
contribute. I'm sure he's right on that - the topic of reusable widget code
has been bounced around here before, and everyone one of the Nebula
committers have written something that we all could have used.
The CWT project proposal: http://www.aspencloud.com/cwt
The initial code came out of the CDateTime rewrite (whose CQ has just been
approved today so code should be hitting CVS this weekend) but with the
addition of things like SAT, that's just a start.
So, as widget developers, what do people think about a project like this?
- What features would you find most helpful?
- What features have you been working on that would benefit other Nebula
components?
- How do we coordinate it with SWT's development? For instance, Chris G.
mentioned an animation toolkit may be on the table for e4 - has anyone
talked with any SWT dev about this?
- What about accessing SWT's internal classes? I've been using several to
get at things SWT probably won't open up - how do we deal with issues like
this?
All questions and comments welcome,
Jeremy
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