1998-09-29 22:36:29 +00:00
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WINGs - WINGs Is Not GNUstep
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1998-09-29 22:36:29 +00:00
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2000-09-29 04:50:56 +00:00
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by
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Alfredo Kengi Kojima
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2006-04-25 19:35:14 +00:00
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kojima@windowmaker.info
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1998-09-29 22:36:29 +00:00
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2020-04-09 00:00:55 -04:00
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WINGs is a small widget set with the N*XTSTEP look and feel. Its API
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is inspired in OpenStep and its implementation borrows some ideas
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from Tk. It has a reasonable set of widgets, sufficient for building
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small applications (like a CDPlayer or hacking something like rxvt). It
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also has other functions that are usefull for applications, like a
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User Defaults alike configuration manager and a notification system.
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The library is limited and its design is a little sloppy,
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so it's not intended to build large or complex applications, like
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anything more complex than a CDPlayer. GNUstep should be used for such
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applications.
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Since WINGs is written in C and is sort of low-level it is small
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and faster than say, Motif or even Athena. Knowing Xlib will help you to
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workaround some of its limitations, although you'll probably be able to
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write something like a trivial tic-tac-toe game without knowing much Xlib.
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Some of its functions are designed to support the Window Maker window
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manager (see http://windowmaker.info) In fact, its primary role is to
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support Window Maker. All other uses of it are just an added bonus.
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It will help you to understand the API if you read the ApplicationKit
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reference manual, distributed as a PDF by Apple. The function names,
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structs and most of the intrinsics are very close to OpenStep classes.
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Internationalization:
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1999-06-01 22:35:21 +00:00
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Change ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL to set the desired font set and
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set MultiByteText = YES; to enable support for multibyte text.
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Widgets provided by WINGs:
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- button (command button, radio, switch etc. - all buttons defined in OpenStep)
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- label
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- textfield
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- frame
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- window
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- popup menu button
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- scroller
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- selection list
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- browser
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- slider
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- scrollable view
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- color well
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- split view
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- tabbed view
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- progress indicator
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- selection (make pasteboard like?)
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- drag&drop
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- input box
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- file panel
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- color panel
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- alert panel
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- font panel
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If you think you can code the following, please do. They are needed by
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WPrefs.app, but the number of other things I have to do is huge.
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- input method support (XIM). I have no idea of how to code it. People who use
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different characters than ASCII will have trouble editing menus without it...
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Wish list: (I don't have the know-how or time to do them)
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- text (with support for RTF)
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- matrix (like NSMatrix)
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- font manager (like NSFontManager)
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- finish other wigets
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- optimize list scrolling (XCopyArea() the area that's already drawn)
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- InterfaceMaker?
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- use XSetWMName and XSetWMIconName for the window/icon title setting.
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This requires transforming the received text to a text property with
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the proper encoding.
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Copyright
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WINGs is copyright (c) Alfredo K. Kojima and is licensed through the GNU
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Library General Public License (LGPL).
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