Re: [MiNT] BubbleGEM

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 07:36:22 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 00:58 +0100, Peter Persson wrote:
>
> > > Is there an advantage of integrating it with the AES? A windowed
> > > replacement shouldn't be hard to write, after all it's just a matter of
> > > displaying up to 256 characters of plain text.
> >
> > There are a few standard add-ons on the platform for which there are well
> >defined protocols. I think it would be nice to have those things in the AES,
> >since they're defacto standard. However, I'm not asking anyone to do that for
> >me :) I'm just saying it would be nice.
 
My thoughts exactly.

> What is the advantage? IMO a BubbleGEM-replacement doesn't belong inside
> the AES anymore than e.g. TosWin does. Tooltip-functionality in the AES
> would be nice, but then implemented properly and not as a kludge.
>
BubbleGEM provides "tool-tip" functionality.

Peter