On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:49:18PM +0900, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:13:24 +0900, > Michael Neumann <mneumann / ntecs.de> wrote: > >> > >> Who does all of this drawing? It looks like some unknown power is doing > >> (and knowing) way too much. > > > > The component! For example the button component has to draw itself onto > > the screen, for which it needs a canvas. > > Aha. I actually did not get this. Not only am I losing hair, I'm also > getting stupid. What a nice way to start into the weekend :-/ oooh, sorry ;) > > Hm, but somewhere you have to implement how the component looks like, no? > > The above is equivalent to: > > > > cgi.table { > > cgi.tr { > > cgi.td { ... } + > > cgi.td { ... } > > } > > } > > > > Well, I'm not happy with the way the cgi stuff is handled, either. > But maybe that's because my brain is in Forth mode currently. In Forth of course that looks pretty much like HTML: : <HTML> ." <HTML>" ; : </HTML> ." </HTML>" ; : <TABLE> ." <TABLE>" ; ... <HTML> <TABLE> ." blah " </TABLE> </HTML> Enjoy: http://www.ntecs.de/old-hp/uu9r/lang/html/forth.en.html :) > > But in a more imperatively fashion, similar as for drawing a GUI on the > > canvas, where you don't do this ('+'): > > > > canvas.box(...) { > > canvas.line(1, 1, 10, 10) + > > canvas.line(...) + > > ... > > } > > Not when you're drawing stuff. But if you're doing widget layout with a > layout manager, you are at least doing this in spirit, if not in fact. Yes. The layout manager will do that for you. > But what's more important now, is to go get Alexander from the > kindergarten ... it's his 5th birthday, you know. happy happy birthday (does he speak forth, too? :) Regards, Michael