[ge-talk] A layout manager

[Paul van Nugteren]

There is something called liblayout made by Marco Nelissen, author of
the IMHO excellent SoundPlay. Anyway I'd be interested to know what the
differences are.

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:20:41 +1200, "Christof Lutteroth"
<lutteroth at cs.auckland.ac.nz> said:
> Hi!
> 
> I am a researcher at university, and my colleagues and me, we have done
> some research on GUI layout. In particular, we are using linear
> programming to calculate a layout that is specified in terms of linear
> constraints, and higher-level constructs that are easier to use but can
> be translated to linear constraints, such as spreadsheet-like layout.
> 
> I was wondering if this could be interesting for Haiku. It has been
> suggested in the scientific literature many times before but has never
> really made it into the real world, although it has clear advantages. It
> allows GUI designers to focus more on the specification of a GUI in a
> declarative manner, i.e. how it should look like, instead of on the code
> that renders the GUI. If you are interested have a look at this paper:
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lutteroth06user.html
> This is old already but it explains some of the basics. In the meantime
> we have extended the approach to use linear programming so that the
> layout manager can automatically consider the preferred sizes of
> controls. For example, this can be used to solve font sensitivity issues
> automatically.
> 
> We implemented our ideas in C#, and it would be relatively
> straightforward to port that to Haiku. For example, as a BLayoutView
> control. What do you guys think about those ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> Christof
> 
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