Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-25 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Alex Robinson wrote: Most of the sample widgets I've seen, I'd rather seo them available as menubar widgets instead. Come on Chris - that's a bit like dismissing something just because there's only a poxy hello world example, and why on earth would anyone just want to

Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-13 Thread Michael P . Wilson
Careful, neither is Konfabulator. On Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003, at 22:28 America/New_York, Joel Rees wrote: Shux, I just wish this had been Perl... So, is this konfabulator thingy going to have some advantage over, say, Tk with Perl? (Or RealBASIC, or Borland's Java gadget, except that those

Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-12 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Puneet Kishor wrote: Some time in early 2000 Arlo Rose came up with an idea for a cool little application. It would use XML to structure images, and a scriptable language, like Perl, in such a way that someone who knew the basics of Perl could put together cool

Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-12 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Puneet Kishor wrote: Some time in early 2000 Arlo Rose came up with an idea for a cool little application. It would use XML to structure images, and a scriptable language, like Perl, in such a way that someone who knew the basics of Perl could put together cool little

Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-12 Thread Puneet Kishor
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 08:41 PM, Chris Devers wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Puneet Kishor wrote: Some time in early 2000 Arlo Rose came up with an idea for a cool little application. It would use XML to structure images, and a scriptable language, like Perl, in such a way that

Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-12 Thread Alex Robinson
Most of the sample widgets I've seen, I'd rather seo them available as menubar widgets instead. Come on Chris - that's a bit like dismissing something just because there's only a poxy hello world example, and why on earth would anyone just want to print hello world? I dunno, this is slick, but

Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-12 Thread Alex Robinson
think of it as a browser without really being a browser. hmmm. that's not really very useful. What if you just create a palette of buttons for actions to perform? Is that really a browser in any sense at all? Or is Photoshop a browser that you only use to manipulate images in? ;) Javascript is

Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-12 Thread Puneet Kishor
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:28 PM, Alex Robinson wrote: think of it as a browser without really being a browser. hmmm. that's not really very useful. What if you just create a palette of buttons for actions to perform? well, a browser with nothing but form buttons on it with js

Re: konfabulator -- something to ponder

2003-02-12 Thread Puneet Kishor
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:28 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Shux, I just wish this had been Perl... So, is this konfabulator thingy going to have some advantage over, say, Tk with Perl? (Or RealBASIC, or Borland's Java gadget, except that those are not free?) unfortunately I don't