[ge-talk] A layout manager

[Christof Lutteroth]

Hi!

Some news about my suggestion of an advanced layout manager for Haiku.

I cleaned up the .net layout manager implementation and set up a website 
for it:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~lutteroth/projects/alm/

The layout model is called Auckland Layout Model (ALM) because my 
colleagues and me, we developed it while we were all together in Auckland.

Regarding the performance: it is faster than I thought. For the Test2 
example in the package (14 areas, some additional constraints), my 
computer (Pentium 4, 3.4Ghz) calculates the layout in less than a 
millisecond (usually about 0.6ms). For larger layouts, the time 
increases only slightly. Apparently the initial performance results were 
biased a lot by the slow default graphics rendering under .net.

Please let me know what you think about it.

Cheers,
Christof