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From: okamoto@gra... okamoto@gra...
Subject: [9fans] What about panel library in the next release?
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 14:10:46 +0900

Thanks Tom--

Actually I tried to test your scrltest.c in /sys/src/libpanel to make use of 
horizontal scrollbar for item list.  

>A scroll bar created with PACKN or PACKS in the flags will be horizontal.  

Yes, scrollbar itself can be made horizontal, but the pllist() does not support 
horizontal scrolling.  :-)  If we confine ourselves only to this program, 
horizontal list might not be neccessary for most of applications, however...


BY the way, I'm wondering how we can make applications without this kind
of upper level libraries, and I'd like to know, then, the policy of Plan 9 designers
on this kind.  In somewhere in the sources, you wrote this would be a beta
version.  This would be true, and it's all right for us.  Then, I'd like to know
whether or when it comes to be a real version... Or who should do it.

We user can make it by ourselves...  Yes, may be.  However, in that case
we will lose standard.  Is that enough for this kind of upper level programmers
interface?  Yes, we can program it by using only libg by clipping in this case
as same as the page program.  However, is that all?  This is my anxious.

I'm a geologist, not computer science major, and want to be an application
programmer at most.

Kenji