RE: [FR-devel] FreeRIDE development progress report

[Curt Hibbs]

Laurent Julliard wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I just wanted to post a short message to tell you that I have spent some
> time investigating the FreeRIDE UI and I have decided to extend what
> Curt did with FR 0.0.4. The goal of this extension is to basically to
> provide two new entities in the abstract UI layer: DockBars and DockPanes.
>
> For those of you who are familiar with FOX these abstract widget will
> probably render into TabBooks in FOX. The goal is to have 3 of these
> entities surrounding the FXScintilla Edit pane (East, South, West) in
> which forthcoming plugins can "plug" and offer their own UI. As an
> example, the Debugger plugin will likely show up in the South DockPane
> and I think all "navigation" related plugins should show up in the East
> DockPane (class browser, CVS plugin,....)

This is great Laurent! Thanks for taking this on.

> I hope I'll have something finished by the end of this week but I will
> probably ask Curt and others to review my code before committing any
> changes to the CVS repo. Alun also offered to take over the UI stuff so
> I think it would be good that he reviews the code as well.
>
> I'l lkeep you posted on my progress and in the meantime I hope all the
> Windowers will fix the FOX UI thread problem.

I finally got around the firewall at my new job and can now get my personal
email and access the FreeRIDE CVS from work. So, hopefully, I can start
looking at this problem.

> Cheers...
>
> ...from Grenoble/France where heat is at its maximum... 36 degrees
> Celsius as I'm writing)

Sorry, I've got you beat on that one -- last week we had several consecutive
days of 38+ degrees Celsius!

> Laurent
>
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