Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!flute.cs.uiuc.edu!totty From: totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Totty) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: new athena widgets long overdue. Message-ID: <1990Nov19.204246.5692@julius.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 19 Nov 90 20:42:46 GMT References: Sender: news@julius.cs.uiuc.edu (USENet News) Reply-To: totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Totty) Distribution: comp Organization: Picasso Group, DCS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 38 In article , thoth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Gilligan) writes: > > Well, I think it's time someone cattleprodded those crazy people > working on R5 and any miscellaneous hackers working on stuff. > > Where the heck is our Athena filechooser widget!? Why do motif, > Macintoshes, Interviews and Khoros have filechooser widgets and the > bloody athena toolkit just has a text widget with no filename > completion. Almost turns me off. > > If noone has implemented one (I mean FileChooser{P.h,.h,.c}, not > some silly collection of code) I'll look into doing it (hmm, right > after the zbrowser, yeah). I have a FileSelector widget that I'll post in the near future. I have a set of interesting widgets (including a full featured PixelEditor widget and a program using it to edit bitmaps) that I was planning to release into the public. Several people are using The FileSelector and PixelEditor widgets currently as beta testers. I was hoping to set up a kind of "Free Widget Foundation" where people could donate widgets into one central location. My earlier suggestions about this only had lukewarm responses, so I put it on hold for a while -- but maybe it is time to think about it again. Please reply if you are interested in this "Free Widget Foundation" idea, and give any suggestions, so I can see what kind of enthusiasm there is out there. --- Bri / Brian Totty o o /__ __ o 1304 W. Springfield Avenue o / / / / Urbana, IL 61801 \_/ "We have corn in /__/ / / totty@cs.uiuc.edu Massachusetts too!"