nanogui: Re: nanoGui development
Subject:
RE: nanoGui development
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
4 May 1999 17:46:15 -0000
Message-Id: <01BE9623.F0FCBE70.greg@censoft.com>
Sorry, Alex, for some reason I was thinking that you and Alan Cox were named Alan ;-)
I think its better to use ANSI C prototypes. bcc is the compiler that ELKS uses,
its a pretty good, small C compiler that compiles 16 and 32 bit. I have modifed
it to compile ansi functions.
In regards to GPM, I will abstract it to yet another mouse driver, which will allow
any mouse driver to be used.
In regards to X, it might be a good idea to rename stuff, but I think it's fine for now.
I would be interested in a bunch of other simple X programs to add to the test suite, though.
We could create a #define header file to convert the function calls...
Greg
On Tuesday, May 04, 1999 11:32 AM, Alex Holden ####@####.#### wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> > I've got the nanoGui project moved up quite a bit. It now runs the sample
> > programs pretty well. As Alan mentioned, I'll be checking all this stuff in shortly.
> ^ Alex
>
> > o A mouse driver (this is more of a pain, we could still leave it out of the kernel)
>
> If you don't want to use GPM, there was some simple MS and PS2 protocol
> stuff in there before which didn't work. You could try getting that
> working as a compile time option.
>
> > o Nanogui uses ANSI prototypes that won't compile with bcc, unless someone
> > wants my ansi modifications, I'm thinking of releasing it myself.
>
> Oops. Mini-X was K&R, but I changed it all to ANSI because I thought no
> sane compiler didn't do ANSI these days ;) What's bcc anyway?
>
> > Currently, NanoGui implements a decent subset of low-level X primitives, although
> > they're renamed. Window creation, GC manipulation and text routines work. We still
> > need some better low-level drawcode support. For instance, XOR drawing isn't done yet.
>
> I wouldn't mind renaming them all to get them closer to X.
>
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