On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:20:28PM -0500, Mordy Ovits wrote:
> On Monday 08 April 2002 03:33, Micah Dowty wrote:
> > Hi Everybody,
> >
> > I just got news from Chuck Groom that he's continuing the work John started
> > on a faster textbox widget. PicoGUI's current Textbox widget is very
> > flexible, but also eats a lot of memory. The designs John and Chuck have
> > been working on sacrifice flexibility for speed. It remains to be seen
> > whether we can integrate the extra formatting capabilities into the new
> > textbox (any textbox that supports text formatting and embedded widgets
> > should be usable as a word processor or web browser) or whether we'll have
> > t have two textbox widgets.
> 
> Most widget toolkit *do* have two text widgets.  "textbox" and "richtext."  
> Or something like that.

Right, but most widget toolkits don't put widgets on the server or maintain a scene 
graph. I'm just trying to consider all possibilities, especially the simplest ones, 
before jumping to the conclusions other GUIs have already made.

> 
> Mordy
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