[interfacekit] Re: UI Widgets?

>I'm not an expert in GUI engineering, but is there a way to keep the 
actual
>drawing code away from the app_server AND the widgets, by using a third
>entity (i.e. service) ?

Now *this* is a different thing altogether.  Though it does beg the 
question of why widgets shouldn't know how to draw themselves. =)

>I know you'll say it's not a good idea, but I really want to know why 
(I
>came in this project to learn ! )  :-)

I actually don't think this is necessarily a bad idea, and may provide a 
useful abstraction when it comes to making themes happen.  I'm not going 
to break my own taboo here, so you'll just have to wait until we start 
R2 to see what I have in mind theming-wise.  Why?  We have so much to do 
already just to accomplish an R5 clone, that spending our time pondering 
how to do themes is a waste of precious resources.  "Focus" is our 
mantra.  Suffice it to say that, regardless of what happens in R2, our 
high-level architecture for R1 is, for all intents and purposes, carved 
in stone.  Besides it gives me a carrot to wave about:  the sooner we're 
done with R1, the sooner we can entertain our theming flights of fancy. 
;)

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could be.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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