kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Rok Markovic <rok@...>]

Hi

ka8bmt please accept my appologies, for making quick assumptions, but 
that was mine honest opinion at that time. Maybee bacause I was angry on
smbdy/smth.

I have downloaded pdf version of the book, and I have to say that wxWidgets
are more poverfull library than I have imagioned. For all my projects
I had used Qt and Qtopia, so I made an assumption that wxWidgets are somehow
not complete. I was tottaly wrong.

If I am going to contribute to the KiCad project I will definitley buy the book.

Best regards,
Rok


Geoff Harland wrote:
> 
> 
> "ka8bmt" wrote (in message 659):
> 
>> While my name *is* in the book, on page XXXIV in
>> "Acknowledgements" section, I get no commission. I
>> didn't even get a free book. I paid for my copy, but
>> you can download yours for free:
>>
>>
> http://www.phptr.com/content/images/0131473816/downloads/0131473816_book.pdf
> <http://www.phptr.com/content/images/0131473816/downloads/0131473816_book.pdf>
>>
>> As my first, and apparently only, posting here was
>> greeted so warmly, I'll crawl back under my rock now...
> 
> Even though it's been a while since you posted that message, I'm still
> very grateful for you providing that URL. Before downloading a copy of
> that book, I had looked at the documentation provided with wxWidgets,
> and thus had "some" understanding of its capabilities and how to use it.
> However the book provides distinctly more information on various
> matters, and even though I haven't yet read it from cover to cover, it
> is still clear that the information which it does provide is very useful
> to anyone who is using wxWidgets to develop applications.
> 
> "ka8bmt" also (previously) wrote (in message 655):
> 
>> May I humbly suggest that these sections of the wxBook be read before
>> changes are done to standard related items, there has been a lot of
>> research done such things:
>>
>> Page 538:
>>
>> "Refer to the section on 'Platform-Adaptive Layouts' in Chapter 7,
>> 'Window Layout Using Sizers,' for information about the
>> wxStdDialogButton Sizer class, which can be used to position standard
>> buttons appropriately on each platform."
>>
>> See pages 203 and 204 for the code.
>>
>> Page 540:
>>
>> "Further Reading
>>
>> Listed below are useful guideline documents for the main platforms
>> supported by wxWidgets, and books giving general advice on UI design."
> 
> Thank you very much also for the tip on this matter; this is as good
> an example as any of additional (and very useful) information which is
> provided in this book, but which has not been provided with the
> documentation provided with wxWidgets (or at least not as far as I am
> currently aware).
> 
> With hindsight, it is not at all surprising that wxWidgets does provide
> support for automatically positioning buttons within different (OS)
> versions of an application; after all, it is supposed to be able
> to support being able to run the same application under different OSes.
> 
> I have recently committed some files which update a dialog box used
> within Pcbnew, and another dialog box of a similar nature used within
> GerbView. Both of those dialogs now use a wxStdDialogButton Sizer object
> to contain their "OK" and "Cancel" buttons, meaning that the (layout)
> sequence of those buttons now depends upon which (OS) version of KiCad
> is compiled and subsequently used. (And no conditional statements are
> required within KiCad's source code to accomplish that outcome.)
> 
> Hence given enough time, I believe that all of the dialog boxes used
> within KiCad could be updated in a similar manner. (For the time being,
> I have primarily been concentrating on updating dialog boxes which have
> not used sizers previously - but there are still assorted dialog boxes
> (which for the most part already use sizers) which also need attention
> for various other reasons, and which I will thus also work on as time
> permits.) It would be one thing to decide to not make the sequence of
> buttons OS version-dependant if to do so would require the provision of
> OS version-conditional code - but as wxWidgets actually does support
> this, I consider that that capability should be utilised.
> 
> Regards,
> Geoff Harland.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> National Bingo Night. Play along for the chance to win $10,000 every
> week. Download your gamecard now at Yahoo!7 TV
> <http://au.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/default_all/bingo/*http://au.blogs.yahoo.com/national-bingo-night/>.
> 
>