from Rob Fletcher <rpf1@york.ac.uk> :
>Any chance of better dials? At present we are stuck with the
>rather Athena-like (pah!) flat objects. It would be nice to
>have 3D sculptured dials as well as a thumbwheel.
I am thinking about adding a shadow to the line dial
and making the dot into a small 3D arrow in normal dial.
Would that make you happy ?
Thumbwheel (I assume the one SGI has) would be cool.
>The 2D locator object could be much more useful if a background
>pix{bit}map could be assigned to the backdrop!
I think what is missing from positioner is an XOR
move option. With XOR move option, adding things,
be it pixmap or vector graphics, to the backdrop would be
easier. Good suggestion.
>Big one ... (and yes SPL, I share your concerns about bloat!).
>Perhaps it's time for some simple and drop - well actually, all
>we need it the ability to simply move an object on the form using
>the mouse - the rest we can detect and program. That said though,
>a complete drag and drop scheme which triggered a call back when
>one object was "dropped" onto another would be nice, and probably
>best done at a low internal level with XFORMS.
I haven't had the time to really look into DnD. Looks like OffiX
is something we can use. Helmut Hohr had written some code
that does DnD with xforms (using OffiX), I will look into
that hopefully soon.
<Biggest one ... (and OK, I too don't much like Mr. Bill!).
>We probably need an NT port real soon. There are other products
>appearing now which may supercede our lovely XFORMS (e.g. amulet).
NT port did not pan out the first time. Now there are
new efforts underway and I have confidence that we'll
see first working (alpha) NT port around the end of the year.
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