David Charlap wrote:
> Todd W Lainhart wrote:
>
>>I've got the henley shirt and mug (day-to-day drinking). I'll sell them
>>when I see springs 'n struts for geometry layout in other toolkits.
> ...
> But having played with these a little, I don't think they're as flexible
> or as powerful as Galaxy's implementation.
I was always surprised that M$ didn't "invent" springs 'n struts; it seems
that s'n's would be a natural for Visual Studio. (The problem with a Java
implementation is that the class would have to tied to _some_ IDE.)
Also, i've always been disappointed that Sun allowed code manager tool to die.
codemgrtool is still my favorite source tool and i haven't even used it
in 10 years.
These two technologies faded away before their time.
You are bidding one one complete lot of Visix Galaxy Application Environment manuals for the "C" language binding. These are from Galaxy 2.5 release but...
Is this truely mint, or broken bindings, battered box, tattered T-shirt and chipped mug? What about the 24 floppy disks of the initial Mac release? - eric ... ...
I've got the henley shirt and mug (day-to-day drinking). I'll sell them when I see springs 'n struts for geometry layout in other toolkits. The black box I...
I used Interface Builder, and the layout is really quite galaxy's one, but since I've changed to wxWidgets, I found an interseting solution : sizers. At the...
... I was always surprised that M$ didn't "invent" springs 'n struts; it seems that s'n's would be a natural for Visual Studio. (The problem with a Java ...
... It has surprised me as well. But MS doesn't invent, the acquire. Since they didn't acquire Visix (although I'm told they made overtures once upon a...
... Sean (the main inventor of springs and struts) now works on .Net at Microsoft. When I was at Microsoft I tried to get them interested in the concept a...
... I don't know precisely, but I believe there was some MIT research work done and a proof-of-concept published prior to Visix's implementation in a...
A guy by the name of Luca Cardelli wrote a paper on constraint-based layout when he was working for DEC. Coincidentally, he was working for Microsoft when I...
Hey, when are we going to have a Galaxy reunion? ... http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cardelli93building.html Jeff; On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:09:15 -0400, "Todd W...
The springs and struts definitely allowed you to create very powerful UI layout constraints, but I still have nightmares about adding a spring and having my...
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