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Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-dat
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Brady Montz |
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Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) |
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19 Apr 2002 12:01:45 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) |
Andy Piper <address@hidden> writes:
> At 09:27 AM 4/19/02 -0700, Brady Montz wrote:
> >1. actual widgets, with an abstraction layer that allows a single lisp
> > spec of them to work on multiple backends - gtk, qt, cocoa,
> > vt100. This might restrict them to be fairly simple, but that's not
> > necessarily a bad thing. I think speedbar and customize are good
> > examples of us straining against the limits of text.
>
> So we actually have this in XEmacs. Its not complete, it has rough edges, but
> its a start. It would be great if we could come up with a standard lisp API
> (common to both XEmacs and Emacs) for doing this sort of stuff. For instance
> this is the XEmacs search dialog:
That's the impression I'd gotten. I haven't yet had the chance to take
a look at it.
Am I mistaken that the differences between gtk and other native
graphics code is exposed to lisp? That is, the lisp widget library
knows about them?
--
Brady Montz
address@hidden
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Terje Bless, 2002/04/20