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Sextile 0.5.2
Sextile 0.5.2
  • Tutorial
    • A first frame
    • Menus and page numbers
    • State and the lifespan
    • Frames and keys
    • Sequences
    • The framework’s pages, and drawing your own
    • Testing a service
  • How-to guides
    • Link between pages
    • List more than nine items
    • An empty list, and a missing page
    • End the call
    • Customise the not-found and failed notices
    • Accept typed input
    • Type-ahead completion
    • Draw a custom frame
    • Compose a frame
    • Draw an icon
    • Draw a chart
    • Show a picture
    • Show a photograph
    • Large lettering
    • Letter on a background
    • Boxed banners
    • Centre wrapped text
    • A custom part
    • Log every page
    • Restrict access
    • Remember a caller
    • The visits log
    • Write a converter
    • Preview a page
    • Connect a BBC Micro
  • Reference
    • API reference
      • sextile
      • sextile.cli
      • sextile.content
      • sextile.content.blocks
      • sextile.forms
      • sextile.formatting
      • sextile.handlers
      • sextile.keys
      • sextile.layout
      • sextile.middleware
      • sextile.pages
      • sextile.state
      • sextile.testing
      • sextile.viewdata
      • sextile.viewdata.blocks
      • sextile.viewdata.canvas
      • sextile.viewdata.charset
      • sextile.viewdata.charting
      • sextile.viewdata.compass
      • sextile.viewdata.composition
      • sextile.viewdata.controls
      • sextile.viewdata.drawing
      • sextile.viewdata.font
      • sextile.viewdata.frame
      • sextile.viewdata.html
      • sextile.viewdata.lettering
      • sextile.viewdata.measure
      • sextile.viewdata.tiles
      • sextile.viewdata.typesetting
      • sextile.viewdata.wrapping
      • sextile.viewdata.yaff
      • sextile.visits
    • Public surface
    • Glossary
    • Keys
    • Command line
    • Layout
    • Content
    • Fonts
    • Viewdata encoding
    • Display semantics
  • Explanation
    • Why Sextile
    • Design decisions
    • The rendering pipeline
    • Middleware
    • Graphics
    • Mosaic fonts
    • How this is put together
    • Where this is going
  • Applications
    • The calendar
    • The forum
    • The weather
  • Contributing
    • Open questions and known gaps
    • Spikes
    • Revealing Sextile: the comprehensibility plan
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Explanation¶

Explanation: why the framework is shaped as it is — the reasoning a reference entry leaves out. Read to understand, not to look something up.

  • Why Sextile
  • Design decisions
  • The rendering pipeline
  • Middleware
  • Graphics
  • Mosaic fonts
  • How this is put together
  • Where this is going
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