Re: A modern look for gvim (win23)

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> 4. Tiny scopes. I would recommend implementing each GUI feature
>    independently of the others. A special library for everything is
>    too hard to write, control and patch. Use conventions like
>    +gui_statusbar, +gui_dialog_-widgets, and +font_prop. By
>    implementing features in small steps, they can be developed and
>    tested more quickly.
>

About two years ago I started to develop a popup list for Vim (script
2606). The first version was developed in Python. This year I ported
it to (object-oriented) C. Unfortunately after 3 months of porting and
about 7k lines of ooc I ran out of time, so the project is on hold.
The code is here:

http://code.google.com/r/markomahnic-vim-popuplist/
branch vim-popuplist, popuplst.c and included files.

Currently it uses the Vim internal drawing functions (vim screen). The
idea was to create interfaces for other GUI systems by reimplementing
the "virtual functions" of the PopupList "class".

I think that with some more work and some Vim Script it could also be
turned into a dialog system for text mode with the basic widgets
displayed as list items: label, button, radio button, line edit, check
box, drop-down list. This way one could write scripts that use GUI
dialogs that would be usable in GVim and in console Vim.

Marko

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