Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 01:03:24 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little 
wrote:
> However, Windows doesn't have this workflow, so mirroring the 
> entire desktop became necessary.

It does now, Server 2008 I think was the first one, or maybe 
Windows 7, they call it Seamless RDP.

> In a widget toolkit, I think the same applies: make just enough 
> controls that most people are satisfied, then make the toolkit 
> easy to extend with custom controls.

Yeah, and that's a much more modest goal too.

BTW I spent a couple more hours on my crappygui.d today. No 
network transparency here, just drawing non-native widgets. So 
yeah it sucks, but it is small, simple, and standalone. Take a 
look at this screenie!

http://arsdnet.net/gui2.png

My keyboard is literally falling apart and backspace doesn't work 
in the text edit yet (big downside of non-native widgets, the 
behavior is hard to get right)... so not much of an edit lol... 
but yeah it is moving along. I think by the end of this weekend, 
it will be good enough for me and I'll put the code on my misc 
github.

The event model is lifted from javascript:

      button.addEventListener("click", { window.close(); });

and mouseenter, keydown, etc. are implemented too. It does the 
capture, bubble, preventDefault, stopPropagation, just like the 
w3c dom. I kinda like that model.