New listbrowser gadget

Anyone who wants to take a bite at this one? :)

http://openamiga.org/index.php?function=viewproject&projectid=52

@orgin

Interesting spec, did you have a use in mind?

What about somebody teaching us how to make working gadget classes first ?!!!!!

@TSK

If you have RKRM: Libraries (there are HTML and AmigaGuide versions of the RKRMS on the developer CD) it contains information on how to write the dispatcher as well as an example of a gadget class.

Some OS4 source code examples:
http://os4depot.net/share/library/misc/titlebar_ic.lzx
http://os4depot.net/share/audio/edit/amisounded-src.lha (soundeditor_gc.c file)

The methods a gadget needs to implement:
OM_NEW
OM_DISPOSE
OM_GET (only if it has gettable attributes of its own)
OM_UPDATE
OM_SET
GM_DOMAIN
GM_LAYOUT
GM_RENDER
GM_HITTEST
GM_GOACTIVE
GM_HANDLEINPUT
GM_GOINACTIVE

Unsupported methods should simply be referred to the class's superclass (for a gadget this is normally "gadgetclass").

@orgin

Bear in mind that the official listbrowser gadget is still in development.

@xeron

Indeed, I however doubt that they will add this particular functionality nor add anything much beyond bug fixes or other cosmetic changes.

At least not within the foreseeable future. And waiting years for something that most likely will not be added isn't exactly what I had in mind.

@orgin

I can certainly point the current lb maintainers to your bounty page.

@xeron

Well please do. However if no feedback is received i'll assume that it won't be done and repost this thread ;) (I don't like when things end up in limbo)

Openamiga.org isn't a bounty page btw. The link at the start of this thread links to a project page. Openamiga.org isn't to be confused by amigabounty or similar.

@broadblues

yes ;)

@orgin

I'm not sure if you are aware, but that diagram you posted is possible to do right now with the current listbrowser gadget. Simply create a label.image object with the required text and pictures in it, and supply that to the listbrowser as the node contents...

Simon

@Rigo

I'm not going to reiterate the whole project description here.

Please reread it and tell me if that is still your opinion. The diagram above does not describe the whole project, only the layout of a single cell.

Afaik the listbrowser gadget does not have a flow layout mode. Without that basic requirement it's not of much use for this purpose.

And on top of that the whole point of the project is that you are able to switch between the two modes (either by reusing the list between two different gadgets or just setting a mode switch in the gadget class) without doing tons of manual data rearrangement and layout management.

@salass00

Thanks. Do you mind if I'll send you email and ask some more questions ?

@orgin
I guess you want to implement icon mode to the filer ?

@TSK

Yes

@TSK

Quote:

Go ahead. I don't mind.

I won't be near a computer on friday and maybe the whole weekend though, so it might take a few days before I can reply.

@xeron

I assume it was a dead end at the listbrowser maintainers and that openamiga can go forward with this if it finds an interested developer?