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Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? [message #56993 is a reply to message #56990]

Thu, 29 November 2007 09:59

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Allan Whiteford writes:

> Can you please expand on this and/or supply a reference? Is support for
> widgets being removed or significantly changed?

Personal communication at a public meeting. The plan,
as I understand it, is not for them to be either
removed or significantly changed. The plan is for
them to be abandoned for something "WAY BETTER".
(If you have heard this story before, I apologize.)

The idea would be to have...I'm not sure what to call
them...GUI Units, I guess... that work identically on
all platforms and require a single code base to maintain.
This is unlike the current widget infrastructure, which
requires a great deal of effort, especially for Motif,
and over the years has evolved functionality that is different
on different platforms.

At the same time as these new "whatchies" are being
developed, a GUI Builder will be created that can
create GUI programs that do not involve jumping through
a lot of hoops to pass data around, etc.

All of this is a "long-term" goal, which in the context of
the meeting, meant sometime in the next 5 years or so.
I think you can rest assured that your widget programs
will still run far into the future. However, I think you
can abandon hope that you will ever have a TABLE_WIDGET
that works well.

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? By: Robbie on Thu, 29 November 2007 17:22
		Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? By: Allan Whiteford on Thu, 29 November 2007 10:54
		Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? By: David Fanning on Thu, 29 November 2007 09:59
		Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? By: Allan Whiteford on Thu, 29 November 2007 09:30
		Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 28 November 2007 15:39
		Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 28 November 2007 15:17
		Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 28 November 2007 14:57
		Re: IDL 7.0: what are projects and workspaces for? By: David Fanning on Wed, 28 November 2007 14:51

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