wanted additional functionality in IB.

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2 total messages Started by Sean Lamont Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:41

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Author: Sean Lamont
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:41

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Just thinking a bit.

IB has great facilities for extension (palettes, etc.).  It also has
OK facilities for managing view hierarchies. (grop, group in scrollview).

One thing that I think would be REALLY useful would be a "Group in
arbitrary view" function which would encapsuluate both of the above, plus
be more extensible.

So for example you could group in scrollview, group in NXSplitView, group
in box, group in "MyHackedView", etc.  I'm not too into building up 
complex view hierarchies by hand when there's a perfectly reasonable
facility to design them.

Comments?  IS NeXT listening?

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Sean T. Lamont                           |   "Don't oppress me, It's
zeno@genetics.washington.edu             |    'computer of color!' "
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Abstract Software

Re: wanted additional functionality in IB.

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Author: Daniel LaLiberte
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:56

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In article <1992Dec19.014103.28938@u.washington.edu> zeno@phylo.genetics.washington.edu (Sean Lamont) writes:

   One thing that I think would be REALLY useful would be a "Group in
   arbitrary view" function which would encapsuluate both of the above, plus
   be more extensible.

   Sean T. Lamont

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More general than that would be to specify the actual subclass of any
view.  So the grouping operation would simply wrap the selected views
in a general superview of class View, and then you could specify the
desired subclass of that superview.  Also, a Button view could be
subclassed to MyButton without having to provide a palette for it and
custom inspector.

If you want to discuss interface builder ideas like this, I encourage
you to join the ibex mailing list
(gnu-objc-ibex-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu).  Ibex will be a portable,
extensible interface builder, and copylefted source will be included.

Dan LaLiberte
liberte@cs.uiuc.edu
(Join the League for Programming Freedom: lpf@uunet.uu.net)

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