nanogui: Thread: nano-x and mwin

i have been looking throught the source to both of these
and i had an idea - tell me if it's a bad one. i was thinking
that if we made the client libary for nanox have the same
fuinction signitures as that of X we could then have our
opne as nX.h - this wold mean easier proting of apps.

and what would be the feasibilty of having one graphics server
and having 2 client libaries - one that implements the
Xlib replacement and one that is a Win32 replacment?
this would mean the tree is far mor e logical in it's structure.

chris

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having 2 client libaries - one that implements the
: Xlib replacement and one that is a Win32 replacment?

Chris -
	This is the idea I've had from the beginning.  The whole
original point of the Microwindows api was to allow applications
to be run without learning a new api, or rewriting the application.
With Nano-X, it's somewhat more complicated, since with the
X model noone writes applications at the Xlib level, instead
writes widgets, and there's no widget standard.  However,
there are several well known widget sets that would
be nice to run on Nano-X.

However, there is an additional complication to this original
design that I just realized last week.  That is, if Nano-X
is exactly the Xlib api (good idea) then when people want
Nano-X to run under X Windows, they get find symbol
collisions with Nano-X and Xlib (nasty trick fixes required).

At this point, I still think a viable compromise, since alot
of folks on this list want the Nano-X on X11 option,
would be to have Nano-X's api be "NXyyy()" where yyy
matches the X11 code.  However, when you remove
the display parameter, in most cases, that's what we've
got now, with Gryyy() calls....  So unmodified
applications will be tricky with the X11 driver, unless
that driver is moved to a shared library and the X11
symbols aren't exported.

Greg