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A Guide to the XPToolkit Architecture

Project Documents:

Executive Overview:	Handout from a recent meeting with our executive sponsor at Netscape (and he bought it!).
Project Goals:	Just a few high-level goals.
Schedule:	Includes dates for specific tasks and milestones. If you think you can infer ship dates from this, please tell us, 'cuz we'd really like to know.

Requirements:

Dialogs	Special features of Windows useful for treating them as dialogs.
Image Button/Menu Button	Buttons that execute commands or show menus/trees when clicked on.
Menus	What we are providing in our menu service.
Progress Bar	Meter or barber pole: no more cylon.
Tab Widget	Tab widget requirements
Toolbars	Toolbar requirements, spec, and examples
Necessary Widgets	A rather complete list of widgets, with screens shots that identify them, but aren't the UE-approved appearance.
XP Widget Set	User Experience spec for Netscape's GFX widgets.
<your widget/service>	Please explore requirements before designing.

Engineering Documents (OBSOLETE)

Architectural Outline:	XPToolkit 101, a required prerequisite.
Architecture Brown Bag:	A talk given by Scott Collins (MP3 format).
XUL & RDF:	An essay on the implementation of AOM, by David Hyatt
Command Architecture:	How menus & widgets execute commands
Broadcasters and Observers	Broadcasters, Observers, and You
Content and Focus	Handling Focus with Context Nodes
Clipboard Design	Interfaces and sample code for using the clipboard
Drag and Drop Architecture:	Requirements,Spec, Design doc all-in-one
Configurable Chrome Spec	All about configurable chrome
XUL Language Spec	Beginning XUL
XUL Window Language:	Dated, and in need of update.
XUL Style Guide	Guidelines for writing XUL, with specifics for i18n.
AppServices/AppCore:	Here's the beef on how to hotwire a widget.
Dialog Cookbook	How to write a dialog
Birthing a Widget	How to write a new widget.
The Widget Plan	Written to justify our approach. Somewhat dated.
Widget Implementations:	GFX or Native? This doc tries to sort it out. A bit dated.
Window Issues	Implementation issues arising from our new window chrome architecture.

Widget Specifications

Toolbar Spec	Syntax and examples for the toolbars
Tree Spec	Syntax and examples of trees
Menu Spec:	How menus work.
Progress Meter Spec	Syntax and examples for a progress meter
Image Button/Menu Button Spec	Syntax and examples for buttons
Checkbox Spec	Normal and Tri-State checkboxes

Older Stuff that may still be of some interest.

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Last updated: 5/28/99 by Peter Trudelle, who really wants your feedback.