[Python-3000] GUI widgets
Bill Janssen
janssen at parc.com
Tue May 9 19:15:04 CEST 2006
Antoine Pitrou writes:
> It is a similar argument to saying "we already offer scrollbar widgets,
> we don't need to provide scrollable views because the developer can
> build them himself".
But that seems a reasonable argument, to me. I'm not saying that
they shouldn't be in the GUI, I'm just saying that it's not a disaster
if they aren't in the initial release. Things get better over time,
after all.
> I think styled text display is important. Editable styled text much
> less.
> An example use case for styled text display: a chat window with chat
> messages scrolling along, where you want the name of the participant to
> be displayed in bold at the beginning of his/her messages.
Yes, I think I agree with you. This is fairly simple to implement,
given, say, an HTML parser, fonts, colors, and the ability to draw
text on a window, but it's not completely trivial. Would be nice to
package in a widget.
Bill
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