Antoine, thanks for the explanations. > A control which displays and allows to interact with several lines of > widgets (e.g. labels, images...). > For example a buddy list in an Instant Messaging client.
This seems like part of the application UI to me, not a toolkit issue. > You cannot assign a > global key shortcut to every command, while you can assign a local > hotkey to any menu item. This seems like creeping featurism to me. I can see the accessibility argument, but it is basically asking for the ability to drive an interface designed for use with a pointing device, without using a pointing device. I'm not sure this is a reasonable constraint. Global hot keys are the interface for a user without a pointing device; menus are the interface for users with a pointing device. This seems like a reasonable design. Trying to mix modes is asking for complexity... > Well, a status bar is a container which can contain many things and sits > ... > It can probably be implemented using a Container, though. = Yes, it sounds like it is variable enough to be part of the application UI, rather than a standard component. > In wxWidgets, the GUI system is able to calculate the minimal size > needed by each and any widget, and to prevent the user from resizing the > window below the calculated minimal size. = I'm not sure that this is effectively possible in all cases, but the "set_bounds" method on Container could probably be extended to optionally do this. > - tab-key navigation (navigating among controls by using Tab and > Shift-Tab) should be handled automatically. Right now it seems you have > to manually define "groups" for tab-key navigation to work. Seems to work automatically on my test case. I put up three text fields and can tab between them automatically. Automatic determination of a tabbing order is not an exact science, though. I've used a number of apps that get it wrong. I could see having no default as a reasonable decision. > All that is not to say that "PyGUI s*cks" (it doesn't seem to ;-)), but > that there are a few important things lacking compared to more mature > (and possibly bloated!) GUI systems. Right. I think that the question is, just what is missing, that is really necessary. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
