andlabs-ui/controlcandidates.md

WINDOWS

• DateTime Picker
• ListView for Tables
• either Property Sheets or Tabs for Tabs
• either Rebar or Toolbar for Toolbars
• Status Bar
• Tooltip (should be a property of each control)
• Trackbar for Sliders
  • cannot automatically snap to custom step; need to do it manually
• Tree View
• Up-Down Control for Spinners
• maybe:
  • swap ComboBox for ComboBoxEx (probably only if requested enough)
  • IP Address control (iff GTK+ and Cocoa have it; maybe not necessary if we allow arbitrary target addresses?)
  • ListView for its Icon View?
  • something similar to Task Dialog might be useful to have as a convenience template later

GTK+

• GtkNotebook for Tabs
• GtkScale for Sliders
  • cannot automatically snap to INTEGERS (let alone to custom steps); need to do it manually
  • natural size is 0x0 for some reason
• GtkSpinButton for Spinners
• GtkStatusBar
• GtkToolbar
• maybe:
  • GtkFontButton would be nice but unless ComboBoxEx provides it Windows doesn't
    • same for GtkColorButton
  • GtkIconView
  • GtkSeparator (I think Windows makes this a mode of Static controls?)
• notes to self:
  • groupbox is GtkFrame
  • GtkTreeView can do tree views and Tables

COCOA

• NSOutlineView for tree views
• NSSlider for Sliders
• NSStatusBar
• NSStepper for Spinners
• NSTabView for Tabs
• NSTableView for Tables
• NSToolbar
• maybe:
  • NSBrowser seems nice...???
  • NSCollectionView for Icon View?
  • NSColorWell is the color button
  • NSOpenGLView for OpenGL; need to see how much OpenGL-specific stuff I need to expose
  • NSRuleEditor/NSPredicateEditor look nice too but
• notes to self:
  • groupbox is NSBox
  • non-editable combobox is NSPopUpButton
  • editable combobox is NSCombobox
  • don't look at NSForm; though it arranges in the ideal form layout, it only allows single-line text entry fields as controls
  • NSSecureTextField does password entries
  • NSProgressIndicator for ProgressBar
• TODO:
  • what does NSPathControl look like?

Slider Capabilities

Capability | Windows | GTK+ | Cocoa

• | - | - | - Data Type | int | float | TODO Can Simulate ints? | yes | TODO | TODO Mouse Step Snap | 1, fixed | something; likely 0.1 but not sure | TODO Keyboard Step Snap | configurable | configurable | TODO Current Value Display | tooltip during drag | label, always visible | TODO Ticks | configurable display, configurable interval | TODO | TODO Can Catch Mouse Events to Snap? | I think this is how to do it | TODO | TODO Preferred Size | given in UI guidelines | natural: 0x0; minimum: TODO | TODO

Spinner Capabilities

Capability	Windows	GTK+	Cocoa
Data Type	int	float	TODO
Can Simulate ints?	yes	yes	TODO
Mouse Step Snap	1, fixed	configurable	TODO
Keyboard Step Snap	1, fixed	configurable (uses same value as mouse)	TODO
Can Catch Events To Snap?	TODO	no need	TODO
Preferred Size	TODO	TODO	TODO