[boost] Re: [gui] GUI Taxonomy

From: Hajo Kirchhoff (mailinglists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-25 05:07:10

Hi, (and merry holidays to those that celebrate them :)

>>   - The Grid
> 
> A grid is an example of a layout manager. Generic support should be 
> added for layout managers and allow you to add managers such as 
> grid-layouts. Another layout is a flow layout, for example, adding 

I would like to take the concept of layout managers a lot further.

Basically a layout is nothing but a particular strategy to calculate the 
size and position of a set of widgets. The grid layout is one of them.

Others are docking mechanisms, or autohide/unhide windows as you see 
them in Visual Studio for example: a window that shows itself when you 
hover with the mouse pointer over its tab for a while and that hides 
itself again when a different window gets the focus.

These too are size/position handlers. So I'd rather think along 
positioning strategies rather than have a 'Grid'. A Grid is too low an 
abstraction.

Regards

Hajo

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