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Re: Self-compiling procedures [message #58794 is a reply to message #58733]

Tue, 19 February 2008 12:09

Michael Galloy
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On Feb 19, 10:26 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> I guess I've got to get out more, but I find IDL's
> widget tools to be powerful and easy to use. I'm
> mystified about why people won't use them.

I do think that IDL's widgets are easy to use, but they look "out of
place", especially on Linux and Mac. They also don't have a full set
of features that you would expect to find in the native platform
systems, Qt, GTK, etc. For example, displaying rich text would be
useful as well as having more options for tree and tabular data. Many
of these features probably seem like small things, but they add up to
a much better user experience.

But I don't really want ITT VIS spending a lot of their development
time building widgets. I think the best option would be to just have
an interface to some widget toolkit that is already cross-platform
like Qt.

Mike
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		Self-compiling procedures By: maye on Sat, 16 February 2008 10:47
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Wed, 20 February 2008 07:58
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 19 February 2008 13:00
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 February 2008 12:27
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 19 February 2008 12:09
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 February 2008 09:26
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Tue, 19 February 2008 09:00
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 19 February 2008 08:20
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Tue, 19 February 2008 08:02
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 19 February 2008 01:56

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