| Re: Dialog_Pickfile Whack-a-Mole [message #81797 is a reply to message #81733] |
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tumanjong
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On Friday, October 12, 2012 5:58:10 PM UTC-4, Mark Piper wrote:
> On Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:17:36 AM UTC-6, Yngvar Larsen wrote:
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>> For 10+ years, I've been wondering why IDL GUI programs must look like 1985. My guess was that nobody at RSI/ITT/Exelis cares because they all use Windows. But I would be glad to be proven wrong!
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> I was hoping someone would bring this up, since it's the root of the DIALOG_PICKFILE issue. We need a new widget system in IDL. It will undoubtedly not be a drop-in replacement for the current widget system. Should the new system be a desktop system (using, e.g., GTK or Qt), or should it be webified (using, e.g., WebGL)? We need to think about this carefully; I don't want to develop something that will be obsolete in five years.
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> What do you think?
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> P.S. Most of my development is done on Linux. It's not so pretty, but it works.
Hi Mark,
I have been asking for this (an updated widget toolkit) for a number of years now. It is about time that this issue is seriously explored. My personal choice would be for something like Qt that already has full cross-platform support and is still being actively developed and used.
Richard Tumanjong Azuah
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