 GLIC statusPosted on November 10, 2004 by Grant SkinnerQuick status update on the gskinner.com lightweight interface components. Technically, the components are done, and have been run through a battery of test suites. In fact, we have significantly expanded the number of components we anticipate releasing. From the 11 we originally planned, we are now up to 18:
* No comparable component in MM v2 ** May not initially implement entire MM v2 API All of these components (except those marked) are polymorphic with MM’s components, so you don’t have to relearn the API or even modify existing applications significantly to upgrade them with GLIC. We’ve even extended the API in many cases – how often have you wished that List and DataGrid had a “scrollToSelected” method? GLIC has one, and that’s just a small example of our new functionality. We also have fully implemented our advanced FocusManager, that works with ALL of our components seamlessly, and allows for easy the creation of tab groups, and advanced features such as having one tab group continue automatically into another tab group. The coolest thing is that you don’t have to use (or even understand) the advanced features if you don’t need them. You can just stick with tabIndex. // add myComponent to a tabGroup myComponent.tabIndex = 3; myComponent.tabGroup = “myGroup”; // named tab group // alternately: myComponent.tabGroup = this._parent; // scope-based tab group // set up myGroup to tab into mySecondGroup when it reaches it’s end: FocusManager.getTabGroup(“myGroup”).nextGroup = “mySecondGroup”; All of our controls are completely accessible via the keyboard, and in the future we will be working to implement full standards-compliant accessibility. IMHO, another super cool feature with GLIC is that our components are non-invasive. They do not rely on scads of mix-ins, they do not plug new functionality into built-in objects. For example, instead of turning every single Array in your application into a data provider, we utilize a RecordSet class that wraps an array – we leave poor Array alone. We even silently manage the process for you in our List based components, so you don’t have to know about it if you don’t want to. I’m working on the business details, and should have news on the expected availability date and licensing details late next week, at which point we will set up a GLIC mailing list to keep everyone interested fed with info. PS. we’re still about 65-75% smaller than MM’s components, and use massively less CPU power. Related links: Announcement: Gskinner Lightweight Interface Components Max introNetwork: GLIC in action. Importance of Test Suites (+glic)
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18 Comments
The only question is: WHEN THE HELL ?
Posted by: 1stPixel on Nov 10, 2004 1:18pm URL: http://www.pixelficker.com
des nouvelles de GLIC
Grant Skinner daigne enfin donner des nouvelles de GLIC. Le nombre de composants proposés dans ce framework est passé de 11 à 17. Seront proposés : Accordion, Button, CheckBox, ColorPicker, ColorPickerRGB, ComboBox, DataGrid, List, NumericStepper, Radi...
Posted by: TWEEN PIX on Nov 10, 2004 1:38pm URL: http://www.tweenpix.net/archives/000502.html
- above:
"...should have news on the expected availability date and licensing details late next week"
Posted by: Lanny McNie on Nov 10, 2004 1:55pm URL: http://www.gskinner.com
Do the components support XML data binding ?
Bernd
Posted by: Bernd on Nov 11, 2004 7:14am
Can you say anything more about the "TabBox" component? Is it visual-tabs interface? Or does it deal with your tabGroup stuff?
Posted by: Jed Wood on Nov 18, 2004 9:18am URL: http://www.usableflash.com/portfolio
The TabBox component is a visual tab interface, including support for tab run-over (ie. too many tabs to display) and full keyboard control.
Posted by: Grant Skinner on Nov 18, 2004 12:29pm URL: http://gskinner.com/
perfect- just what I was hoping for.
Back to anxiously waiting...
Posted by: Jed Wood on Nov 19, 2004 8:24am URL: http://www.usableflash.com/portfolio
Hi Grant,
Any idea on the estimated price of all the components? I assume you are very close to actually releaseing them, so just wondering if you can give out this info now.
Thanks,
Chris
Posted by: Chris Allen on Nov 22, 2004 11:10am
*THUD*
Crap.
I just died of anticipation.
Posted by: jmy on Nov 23, 2004 12:56am
any updates on this? After all, if one reads this closely, one would think that you had the details the week of 11/19/2004. I understand that you went through a wholesale change for your site, but some of us are very interested in replacements of certain MM V2 components (specifically the data grid).
Posted by: Jim Fee on Jan 26, 2005 7:44am
I agree to the posting of jim. PLEASE GRANT, GIVE US AN UPDATE ! The world is waiting for GLIC !!!
Kai
Posted by: Kai Langenbach on Feb 5, 2005 2:04am
Are we nearly there yet?
Are we nearly there yet?
Are we...
hehe :)
Posted by: Andy Lount on Feb 7, 2005 4:52am
Is this going to come out before 8ball?
Posted by: Mr. Junk on Feb 17, 2005 3:39am URL: http://www.dubink.com
any news?
Posted by: tyggy on Feb 25, 2005 12:54pm URL: http://www.elro.com
Is it true, that they will never be released?
Posted by: Mr. Spam on Mar 11, 2005 12:42pm
No news?
Guess I'll have to write my own then...
Posted by: Scott on Mar 29, 2005 5:58pm
Did you droped this project with no furhter notice ?
Posted by: iongion on Mar 30, 2005 10:21pm
No, me don't like
Posted by: Robert on Dec 23, 2006 4:32am URL: http://www.construction-tools.info/