Re: [Gnumed-devel] gmrecalls.sql

[Horst Herb]

Ian Haywood wrote:

> Richard's GUI: its clearly causing headaches for people, and doesn't look like 
> it's going to get actively developed
> for now (Richard is pretty quiet,  I'm in Wodonga for the next 10 weeks) unless 
> someone is interested, I propose we
> fork it into a separate client, probably more targeted at a Windows audience 
> (but in wxPython, it would work
> anywhere of course)

I am trying to add most of Richard's GUI stepwise into the modular design.

My philosophy still is having many small and rather independent "widget 
units", which can be plugged in and out of the user interface framework 
depending on a users need and taste.

These widgets may communicate with each other via our internal message 
dispatching system, but they rarely ever should rely on any specific 
user interface element being available or active at any given time.

While Richards user interface is certainly eye candy for most, and he 
has put a lot of thought into work flow management too, it can't deny 
it's VB legacy where due to the development tool he was constrained into 
a monolithic linear paradigm. Thus, I'd like to make Richard's look and 
feel available, but in the modular gnumed way. To achieve that, I'd say 
we should disentangle the "patient window manager" first.

Horst