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  • Xlib popup menus

    From Noel Hunt@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 27 18:40:13 2018
    I have written code implementing Blit-style menus as they
    appear in Eight Edition Unix. These are popup menus, which
    will scroll the contents when the contents are above a
    certain threshold, and they are hierarchical, i.e. they
    can cascade. The style of menus in Plan9 is basically
    the same without the ability to cascade.

    I wrote this because there is absolutely nothing satisfactory
    in terms of menu code for Xlib, and there never has been
    as far as I can see.

    The shell bundle is about 1500 lines of code so I don't
    wish to post it here, but will happily mail the bundle to
    anyone who is interested---please let me know if you are.

    Regards,
    Noel Hunt

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  • From Ivan Shmakov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 17 15:25:08 2018
    Noel Hunt <noel.hunt@gmail.com> writes:

    I have written code implementing Blit-style menus as they appear in
    Eight Edition Unix. These are popup menus, which will scroll the
    contents when the contents are above a certain threshold, and they
    are hierarchical, i. e. they can cascade. The style of menus in Plan9
    is basically the same without the ability to cascade.

    I wrote this because there is absolutely nothing satisfactory in terms
    of menu code for Xlib, and there never has been as far as I can see.

    The shell bundle is about 1500 lines of code so I don't wish to post
    it here, but will happily mail the bundle to anyone who is interested---please let me know if you are.

    Can you post it to news:alt.sources instead?

    Alternatively, can you post it to, say, http://transfer.sh/ and
    post the link here? Like, e. g.:

    $ curl --upload-file ./libxpopup.shar http://transfer.sh/libxpopup.shar

    (The command will output the URI the file is available under.)

    But personally, my first question is: what's the license?

    TIA.

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    FSF associate member #7257 http://am-1.org/~ivan/

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  • From Noel Hunt@21:1/5 to Ivan Shmakov on Tue Jul 17 15:59:11 2018
    On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 1:25:09 AM UTC+10, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
    Noel Hunt <Mummy.Badger@gmail.com> writes:

    But personally, my first question is: what's the license?

    Since it is based on code from Bell Labs which is now available
    at The Unix Heritage Society, it is not encumbered by any license.
    I'd be pleased to know if you find any bugs.

    I have uploaded it: https://transfer.sh/TUlod/libxpopup.shar

    Regards,
    Noel Hunt

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  • From Ivan Shmakov@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 18 01:55:29 2018
    Noel Hunt <noel.hunt@gmail.com> writes:
    On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 1:25:09 AM UTC+10, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

    But personally, my first question is: what's the license?

    Since it is based on code from Bell Labs which is now available at
    The Unix Heritage Society, it is not encumbered by any license.
    I'd be pleased to know if you find any bugs.

    Unless I'm gravely mistaken about copyright law, "license" means
    "permission", and consequently "no license" means "no permission."
    (Aside of "fair use," of course, such as quoting a Usenet article.)

    I'll check it out, but I'd very much hesitate to rely upon it in
    any of the code that I intend to release to the public.

    I have uploaded it: https://transfer.sh/TUlod/libxpopup.shar

    ACK, thanks.

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    FSF associate member #7257 http://am-1.org/~ivan/

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  • From Noel Hunt@21:1/5 to Ivan Shmakov on Tue Jul 17 21:05:20 2018
    On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 11:55:30 AM UTC+10, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
    Unless I'm gravely mistaken about copyright law, "license" means
    "permission", and consequently "no license" means "no permission."
    (Aside of "fair use," of course, such as quoting a Usenet article.)

    If you are content with menus that don't cascade, you could
    use the code David Hogan wrote originally for '9wm' the plan9-style
    window manager. I suspect that is covered by some kind of 'fair
    use' license. I don't know of anyone who has ever used it though,
    but it was the precursor of 'rio', the window manager in the plan9
    port suite of programs.

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