RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Re: Popup slider

["Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx>]

I've not seen it yet, but I'd agree some sort of border sounds necessary
and probably should be a 0.7 fix. Another common way of separating
pop-ups like this is to give them a shadow. Apple do this of course
everywhere. But I don't know what determines whether this can be done on
Linux? I've have seen some distros do this, but my Ubuntu (quite old
now) does not.  Or can it be made to? Or can we do this on a dialog by
dialog basis? (Requires transparency handling on the desktop presumably)

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Bligh
> Sent: 24 July 2006 21:06
> To: Alex Bligh
> Cc: xara-dev; Alex Bligh
> Subject: [XaraXtreme-dev] Re: Popup slider
> 
> Alex Bligh wrote:
> > There are several bugs we are both aware of. The main ones are that 
> > currently it only works in "Windows" mode (click release, 
> then click 
> > release), whereas somewhat confusingly Xtreme on Windows 
> only works in 
> > "Mac" mode. There is also a missing border (of any sort) around the 
> > control.
> 
> Here are the bugs we are currently aware of, in approximate 
> degree of importance (most important first), tested against r1514:
> * Needs a border round the control so it doesn't get lost
>    against the background
> * Fix wxGTK bug so that SetLineSize works. This will make
>    the mouse wheel and keyboard handling work.
> * Needs to support the Mac way (i.e. current Xtreme way) of
>    setting values (click and drag) as well as the windows
>    way (click and release, then click/drag and release).
> * Current technical problem with styles in XRC. Clash needs
>    to be sorted by implementing <sliderstyle>
>    Add wxSL_AUTOTICKS while at it.
> * Should support vertical sliders as well as horizontal
> * Should be able to control the length of slider in XRC
> * Make "auto update" stuff work - & xrc flag for automatic updates
> 
> My own view is that only the first needs fixing for 0.7.
> The second is a wxWidgets issue. The remainder are issues in 
> the pop-up slider code, but in my view can wait for after 0.7.
> 
> Alex
>