gui

9.4: adde/ide/assisting while preserving:

. when building the etree

how to differentiate the user's etree

from the additions adde makes doing

autocompletion or correction?

. each subtree needing change

is replaced by a menu list:

{ the original subexpr

, the other choices that adde guessed,

"(other) --- means the user can clarify

}

. when the issue is resolved

then menu is replaced with chosen etree .

11.1: adde/logging:

. when reporting a msg,

it auto'ly includes path which hyperlink to source;

it also links to process,

so clicking log entry to an active process

will activate to front the window of that process

( the source path is nothing but link,

and then adde is adding the link's name for human use) .

11.7: adde/gui/shimmering selection points:

. if window frames had larger selection points

they might get in way of data, but if shimmering ...

11.9: adde/gui/impl'details:

. the view is a tree of rect's,

since a rect may contain rects

just as a tree contains subtrees .

. all atomic types have a rectangular image .

. convert mouse coords to window coords .

. after mouse coords to window coords,

convert again(conceptually) to obj coord;

ie, the viewing window rect will often be

much smaller than the obj rect

so the obj can be scrolled

which chg's the translation from view.point to obj point .

. this way you don't have to

chg all obj rect ranges just because of a scroll .

. each rect subtree has location ranges

and a list of subrects .

. word wrapping depends on

both the line size (column width)

and word size (character height

or prefered size of other atomic types):

. small words (having few char's)

have their own word code (they are word.atoms)

while larger words are

sequences of word.atoms (word.ules)

eg, anti-dis-establish-ment-arian-ism .

. height of atom determines height of line

but title lines are larger (or rarely smaller) .

. say most lines are 10pixels high;

then obj coord/10 gives approx line #;

so then can ask for coords of line's rect;

if coord greater than cursor coord

try prev'line etc .

. when a graphic is embedded in text

. the word wrap has to divide the current column

into 2 columns:

one for the pict,

and then the remaining space holds any text that was

between pict and the next newline .

ie, a pict placed at the eol [end of line]

means don't have any text beside the pict .

. you can see this as 3 text rec's

and one graphic rect .

. a simplifying idea (though not a surely portable one)

is that gui toolkits like the one on mac

can help you with the details if you

view text emedded with pict as

really being separate windows

that are made to stay together .

11.21: news.adde/what your doing now, only with a 2nd life added:

New Scienist Opinion, Nov. 13, 2009/The web needs to be more lifelike

. The web today does not optimise for human behaviour.

When we use it we are usually alone and it is not live.

In a Second Life store you can see other people,

sit with and talk to them.

I envisage we will move a lot of what we are doing on the internet today

into these more lifelike, 3D spaces.

11.7: news.addx/portability:

. mouse-still-up is appreciated but not always available .

11.16: addx/admin vs user modes:

. admin mode is there to offer a safe user mode

for untrusted or naive users .

[12.25: it would be a filter allowing the user to do

some admin activities while also preventing

the sort of damage that would only occur accidently

or from vandals .

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