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Re: OT: ANN: Kura 1.0 released

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 20:41
> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:43:10 +0100 > From: Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote: > > I guess I'll have to stay away from that scene, I don't understand it. > > You're quite welcome to port Kura to tkInter or wxWindows, of course
I didn't mean tecnically --- I meant why we even need widget sets that allow one program to tell another that its third pushbutton widget from the right should have a picture of George W.'s nose as its background. Athena widgets were naff, but feature-wise Motif suited me just fine. (When it worked). Give me keyboard traversal that works, and I'm happy. OK, there's a point. Do the newer widget sets default to a sensible traversal sequence that actually gets to all the widgets, instead of relying on the programmer to get it wrong, and do they have sensible default bindings like letting PageUp and PageDown through from a scrollPane to its scrollBars? I'm not a GUI programmer anyway. I think I hear the Perl 5.7 numeric conversion code calling for a cleanup, though. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)