[Glade-devel] Building User Interfaces by Direct Manipulation (Cardelli paper)

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

Note this is very toolkit specific, as a designer, what we try to accomplish is
a modular way of editing widgets that exist (for example try
positioning children
inside GtkFixed or GtkLayout), Gazpacho did some interesting things with
GtkBoxes, Glade does at the moment allow Drag & Resize operations on
widgets inside GtkBox and GtkTable widgets.

Ofcourse, inventive patches that make child positioning easier or even more
pretty are always welcome, if you have any implementation ideas even you
are welcome to share them here ;-)

Cheers,
                     -Tristan

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Paul Dufresne <dufresnep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have read this paper from Luca Cardelli around 1998.
>  I have found it very interesting, and always have found the vbox and
>  hbox model deceiving in comparison. I guess I have had since the first
>  time I had read it the intention of one day implementing these
>  stretching rules, but never become good enough or care enough to
>  actually implement them.
>
>  But I really wish something like that (stretching rules) to be
>  available inside Glade.
>
>  The paper is now very old (written in 1988 I think). But I think that
>  some of the ideas should have been implemented a long time ago in
>  tools like Glade.
>
>  Here is a place where you can download it without being a member of
>  ACM (which I am not):
>  http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Toolkit.pdf
>
>  Hope someone among you could at least read the section 2 and see if it
>  can be used inside/with Glade.
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