Hi John, I originally wrote the textbox widget (along with most of the rest of PicoGUI) but lately i haven't had time to finish it. That should be changing Real Soon Now though. Recently Yann has been working on it some. He's got basic appending of text working. The textbox widget needs a lot of work, and we could use help. Probably the best way to collaborate on it is to meet in the #picogui channel on irc.openprojects.net.
About the text storage format... the format we're using right now was chosen so that the same layout engine used for the widgets can be used for text layout. It is an unconventional design, but i think it makes sense for PicoGUI. If there's a problem with this method, instead of writing a second layout engine for the text i think the existing layout engine should be tweaked to handle text and normal layout well. --Micah On 2002.02.04 19:09 John D. Blair wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently discovered pico-gui, and I'm really impressed by it. I > really like its design-- it looks like a really good platform on which > to > build. Good work all of you. > > I have a project I'm interested in using pico-gui for. Unfortunately, > I > need an edeitable text widget. However, I'd like to do the work > needed > to > create an editable text widget. Even better, I can devote myself > full-time to this project for the immediate future. > > I'm writing to y'all right now to find out if anybody is already > actively > working on turning the current view-only text widget into an editable > text > widget? From reading the source code I can see that there's a plan to > do > this, but it doesn't look like much progress has been made. I'd like > to > avoid reproducing work that other people may already be doing. > > Is there anybody who can help me get started? I think I've figured > out how the text widget currently stores text and formatting > information > (in the divnodes and groplists), but I'm not convinced its necessary > the > best way to store the text in an editable text-widget. > > best, > -john. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel > _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
