[wx-dev] Re: Fityk GSoC project (wxFileCtrl/custom wxFileDialog)

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 2 May 2007 14:44:34 -0400 John Labenski <jlabenski at gmail.com> wrote:

JL> On 5/2/07, Marcin Wojdyr <wojdyr at gmail.com> wrote:
JL> > OT: I played a bit with John's wxThings yesterday. There is a bunch of
JL> > useful widgets there, like floating-point spinctrl, bitmap+text
JL> > button, toggle-bitmap-button. Aren't they useful enough to be included
JL> > in wx core?
JL> 
JL> These are not "native" controls in the sense that they are all built
JL> using wxWidgets controls. I would love to have them included, but...

 The floating-point spin control should be really implemented natively as
GTK+ native control does use floats and we just cast them to int in our
code. But your implementation could be used as the generic one. I agree
that this one should really be in the core library itself, but it seems a
pity to not have a native version for at least GTK+ (don't know about Mac,
MSW doesn't have such control natively).

JL> conceivably all of these custom type controls could be taken from the
JL> Universal port of wxWidgets once it is integrated to work with the
JL> platform dependent library build.

 Of course, for this wxUniv should have them first...

JL> It's a popular control used in a lot of programs, something like this
JL> 
JL> http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/programs/Matlab/matlab.png

 I really wouldn't take Matlab as a standard of UI design. I think it has
one of the worst UIs I've ever seen (but it's true that the competition in
the domain of mathematical programs is rude...).

 Regards,
VZ