Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] proposed initial DTD for LADSPA-gui-xml
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 18:27:28 EET
Xavier - I assume you meant this to go to the list ...
>In order that anyone could write some different looking backend with their
>funky fonts and different looking widgets, I propose to handle geometry
>management trough VBOX and HBOX rather than fixed positions. They really are
>a pain when you translate string in the interface, since their size can vary
>a great deal between french, german and english !
>
>I propose having the different containers (dont't know how to read a DTD,
>just examples given :
>
><VBOX [spacing="3"] [homogenous="true"]>...some widgets...</VBOX>
>
>idem with HBOX
>
><GRID [vspacing="2"] [hspacing="3"] [vhomogenous="true"]
>[hhomogenous="false"]><GRIDLINE>..widgets</GRIDLINE><GRIDLINE>..widgets..</G
>RIDLINE></GRID>
>
>It shouldn't be too hard to implement since motif, Qt, Gtk+ (thus gtk--) and
>Tk have the notion of hbox, vbox and grids.
>
>It eases resizing, too.
OK, I like this. In fact, I wanted to do this, but I could not see
clearly how to do it. I think your suggestion makes this clear. Let me
cook up another version that will use this idea, since this is clearly
superior.
>Another thing : adding a version number in interface, because we will have
Consider it done.
--p
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