Re: Gui widgets - Are there any sample programs?

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "AO" == Akiko Ogawa <- RS/GIS lab <address@hidden>> writes:

AO> Hello, I want to master all the nice widgets in Gui library.  But
AO> I cannot figure out how to create those widgets.  Swarm
AO> documentation doesn't help me figure out how and in what order I
AO> should call those methods.

AO> I realized that simple examples are much more helpful to learn
AO> Swarm than a thick documentation.

AO> Does anyone know if there are some good examples available?

There's no official "standalone" reference guide to the GUI, as such.
I'd suggest:

1) Looking at the Swarm User Guide (Beta):

 http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/swarmdocs/userbook/userbook.html

2) Investigating the wealth of user-created apps to be found in the
   anarchy section of the ftp site:

 ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/users-contrib/anarchy

Many of them have non-standard examples of using some of the GUI
features not found in heatbugs, mousetrap et. al., if that's what
you're looking for.

[Btw, before you get too invested in the current API of the GUI
library you should know that the GUI API has evolved over time, and is
really more of a repository of
things-that-were-needed-for-various-random-reasons, than an engineered
set of GUI widgets.  It's also based on the Tk widget set and relies
on using the Tcl interpreter to go-between Objective C and Tk, which
adds fragility at times.  One of things we may do in the future will
be replacing it with a more robust front-end probably based on the
Swing/AWT toolkit for Java.  I'd recommend that for folks interested
in serious GUI work to consider using some of the third-party
libraries (e.g.  Diva:

 http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/diva

is a set of widgets for drawing graph data structures if you're using
the Java interface to Swarm)].


Good luck!

Alex
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Santa Fe Institute (www.santafe.edu) & Swarm Development Group (www.swarm.org)

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