[Python-Dev] Adding library modules to the core (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:55:14 -0400

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Mark Hammond <MarkH@ActiveState.com>:

For example: * How does a "page" concept make sense in a high-res GUI? Why do we have a stack of pages? * What is a "viewport height" - is that a measure of pixels? If not, what font are you assuming? (sorry - obviously rhetorical, given my "text only" comments above.) * How does a "thumb position" relate to scroll bars that existing GUI widgets almost certainly have.

It's not designed for use with graphical browsers. Here are three contexts that could use it:

• A menu tree being presented through a window or viewport (this is how it's being used now).

• A symbolic debugger that can browse text around a current line.

• A database browser for a sequential record-based file format.

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