From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:00:37 -0400 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] control(2), createmenu and event(2)-style menues In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: b085741c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Pop up an acme window with the defaults as text, let the user edit and Put or Go or whatever. Just like editing /mnt/plumb/rules or /dev/vmware. Russ On 9/5/06, Sascha Retzki wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Why are you, guys, so impressed/infected by Windozish style of doing things?? Isn't acme idea far more impressive? If you're capable of writing apps, why don't you write acme apps in the way acmemail does it? > > [..] > > > I want to write a GUI which displays audiodata > > > The thing with acme basicly is, it can just do text. I have some ideas about a graphical acme, but not now. :) > > See, actually I want to get certain information from the user; If the user wants to convert the data, he uses the right-click menu to select 'convert' - all the other information needed include several things (here: sample rate, channels (with 3d sound, that one becomes really interesting), bits per sample,...), so how would you do that? Presenting a 'command-line' is not really cool - Neither to put those things into the right-click menue. So I hoped createmenu() creates a menue in the style of: > > > +---------------+ > | | > | Bl0b: [ ] | > | | > | [Ok] [Cancal] | > | | > +---------------+ > > I am convinced that it is way better than any alternatives, at least currently. > >