Widgetry - the future is nowPollock - the next VW GUIFinishing Up- September 12, 2007 M - I - CEEEEE It seemed only appropriate that I finish the ScrollingCanvas discussion. People wanted to know how to have a Canvas that they could scroll. But there is a secret I have been hiding since the very beginning. There was no need to make a special Canvas like pane with scrollbars! I undertook the discussion since it would reveal the workings of borders and interior decorations. In particular, the details of how a custom widget creator would add scrollbar support to a new pane. As.http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/pollock/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle... Final Update- September 11, 2007 As noted in the Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants blog item: Cincom Smalltalk Product Direction: UI blog, Widgetry is being put to bed. It is only appropriate though to make a final official update of the code base. Version 1.33 of Widgetry, and Version 1.10 of WidgetryTesting are now published to the public repository. Here are the changes from 1.12 of Widgetry: Center align inputdisplay for InputField Grid resizes cause the recreation of columns (and thus rows and cells) over and...http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/pollock/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle... Horizontal Scrollbar Plus Plus- September 7, 2007 Today we'll address the horizontal scrollbar. The Lateral Basics As we noted in the last posting, there are two basic pieces of information that a scrollbar needs. For a horizontal scrollbar it is the maximum width and the current left offset. Each of these has an accessor on our Artist. For the maximum width the accessor is maximumItemWidth, and for the offset it is leftOffset. As you see, and saw in the last posting, some of the names come from the notion of dealing with a list of some...http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/pollock/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle... |