add semi-working gocuiv0.7.4

commit 947169df5a22c9f9b53f825764747f648c70ff1e
Author: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 29 22:44:08 2023 -0500

    ready for version v0.7.4

        start deprecating toolkit.Widget
        switch to variable name 'ParentId'
        use 'ActionType' and 'WidgetType'
        preliminary redraw()
        final definition of variables 'Name' and 'Text'
        more cleaning of the code
        remove lots of dumb code
        bind 'd' key press to dump out debugging info
        early color handling in gocui!

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>

commit 6013fde8332e8ecbffaf1a0977ba2e1da8ea8775
Author: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Mar 26 17:19:20 2023 -0500

    improvements towards a working dns control panel

        democui has the help menu
        try to add mouse support to gocui
        make a direct access method
        Margin() and Pad() tests
        add SPEW
        also push devel branch to github

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>

commit 6f91f5e080e06cdc0f34b13d23e5fd16ea37259a
Author: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Mar 24 20:14:18 2023 -0500

    starting to try safe chan and goroutines

        fix tab title's
        right before attempting to add chan goroutines
        removed "where" widget pointer
        box added to tab
        experiement with log as it's own repo

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 61 deletions

diff --git a/toolkit/widget.go b/toolkit/widget.go
index 450cd8b..0a1dda3 100644
--- a/toolkit/widget.go
+++ b/toolkit/widget.go
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ type ActionType int
 //
 // All Toolkit interactions should be done via a channel or Queue()
 // TODO: FIGURE OUT HOW TO IMPLEMENT THIS
+// https://ieftimov.com/post/golang-datastructures-trees/
+// TODO: protobuf ?
 //
 // This is the only thing that is passed between the toolkit plugin
 //
@@ -18,7 +20,6 @@ type ActionType int
 // Could a protobuf be used here? (Can functions be passed?)
 type Widget struct {
 	Name   string
-	// Action string		// "New", "Delete", "Set", aka something to do
 	Type  WidgetType
 
 	// This function is how you interact with the toolkit
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ type Widget struct {
 	Callback  func()
 
 	// re-adding an id to test channels
-	id     int
+	Id     int
 
 	// This is how the values are passed back and forth
 	// values from things like checkboxes & dropdown's
@@ -39,32 +40,22 @@ type Widget struct {
 	// maybe safe if there is correctly working Custom() between goroutines?
 	// (still probably not, almost certainly not. not possible. layer violation?)
 	S	string // not safe to have 'S'
-
-	// This GUI is intended for simple things
-	// We are not laying out PDF's here
-	// This is used for things like a slider(0,100)
-	Width  int
-	Height int
-	X      int
-	Y      int
-
-	// Put space around elements to improve look & feel
-	Margin	bool
-
-	// Make widgets fill up the space available
-	Expand	bool
 }
 
 type Action struct {
-	Type ActionType
+	ActionType ActionType
+	WidgetType WidgetType
+
+	WidgetId int
+	ParentId int
+
+	Text string  // what is visable to the user
+	Name string  // a name useful for programming
 
 	// this should be the widget
 	// if the action is New, Hide, Enable, etc
 	Widget *Widget
-
-	// this is the widget 
-	// where the other one should be put on New, Move, etc
-	Where *Widget
+	Callback  func(int)
 
 	// This is how the values are passed back and forth
 	// values from things like checkboxes & dropdown's
@@ -90,31 +81,30 @@ type Action struct {
 	Expand	bool
 }
 
-
-// https://ieftimov.com/post/golang-datastructures-trees/
-// TODO: protobuf ?
 const (
 	Unknown WidgetType = iota
-	Window
-	Tab	// internally, this should be a window (?)
-	Frame	// should windows and tab's be frames (?)
-	Grid	// a grid of frames ?
-	Group	// internally, this should be a grid (?)
-	Box	// internally, this should be a grid (?)
+	Root	// the master 'root' node of the binary tree
+	Flag	// used to send configuration values to plugins
+	Window	// in certain gui's (ncurses), these are tabs
+	Tab	// internally, this is a window
+	Frame	// deprecate?
+	Grid	// like drawers in a chest
+	Group	// like the 'Appetizers' section on a menu
+	Box	// a vertical or horizontal stack of widgets
 	Button
-	Checkbox
+	Checkbox // select 'on' or 'off'
 	Dropdown
-	Combobox // dropdown with edit=true (?)
+	Combobox // dropdown with edit=true
 	Label
-	Textbox	// is this a Label with edit=true?
-	Slider
-	Spinner
-	Image
-	Area
-	Form
-	Font
-	Color
-	Dialog
+	Textbox	// is this a Label with edit=true
+	Slider // like a progress bar
+	Spinner // like setting the oven temperature
+	Image // TODO
+	Area // TODO
+	Form // TODO
+	Font // TODO
+	Color // TODO
+	Dialog // TODO
 )
 
 const (
@@ -122,7 +112,6 @@ const (
 	Delete
 	Get
 	Set
-	SetFlag
 	GetText
 	SetText
 	AddText
@@ -137,11 +126,14 @@ const (
 	Append
 	Move
 	Dump
-	Flag
 )
 
 func (s WidgetType) String() string {
 	switch s {
+	case Root:
+		return "Root"
+	case Flag:
+		return "Flag"
 	case Window:
 		return "Window"
 	case Tab:
@@ -185,7 +177,7 @@ func (s WidgetType) String() string {
 	case Unknown:
 		return "Unknown"
 	}
-	return "Widget.Type.String() Error"
+	return "WidgetType.String() Error"
 }
 
 func (s ActionType) String() string {
@@ -198,8 +190,6 @@ func (s ActionType) String() string {
 		return "Get"
 	case Set:
 		return "Set"
-	case SetFlag:
-		return "SetFlag"
 	case GetText:
 		return "GetText"
 	case SetText:
@@ -226,22 +216,8 @@ func (s ActionType) String() string {
 		return "Append"
 	case Move:
 		return "Move"
-	case Flag:
-		return "Flag"
 	case Dump:
 		return "Dump"
 	}
-	return "Action.Type.String() Error"
-}
-
-// this is hopefully just used in a very few places for
-// debuging the interaction between go apps and the underlying
-// toolkits. Hopefully this is less prone to problems and can
-// detect memory leaks, threading problems, memory allocation & mapping errors, etc
-func (w *Widget) GetId() int {
-	return w.id
-}
-
-func (w *Widget) SetId(i int) {
-	w.id = i
+	return "ActionType.String() Error"
 }