From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5598 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2003 19:01:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5562 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2003 19:01:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) (66.163.168.179) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2003 19:01:11 -0000 Received: from adsl-64-175-251-31.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net (HELO odysseus.peterslan) (sampln@sbcglobal.net@64.175.251.31 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2003 19:01:10 -0000 Subject: RE: UI proposal From: Lincoln Peters To: "Brandon J. Van Every" Cc: Xconq list In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1069268464.29637.130075.camel@odysseus.peterslan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:02:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00799.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 00:33, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > Lincoln Peters wrote: > > > > http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/gtk-xconq.png > > > > DON'T PANIC! This screenshot does NOT, on its own, illustrate what I > > was thinking about! > > Glad to hear that. It's definitely too cluttered. But if you were able > to bang it out quickly, that's of interest. My biggest question: can > GDK+ do right-click popup menus with icons in them? Yes. I've seen them implemented in countless programs, including the one I'm using for e-mail. I think that Freeciv also uses GTK+, and it uses pop-up menus extensively. > > Second big question is: do you know if SDL GUI builder tools exist, or > are you speculating? It is not clear from your comments that Glade has > anything to do with SDL. If SDL requires manual labor to get results, > that's a loss. I used Glade simply because it was easy to bang something out. As far as I know, there is no similar tool for SDL. However, I don't know anything about SDL programming.