nanogui: Thread: Project ideas

hi,
I am a final year computer science undergraduate student in India and am
searching for a 1 year project for 3 people.
I came across the microwindows website and found the GUI interesting.
Primarily i am thinking about writing a widget library for microwindows.
Also if anybody could suggest any more similar kind of projects to do on the
small GUI then i shall be grateful.
Looking forward for interesting suggestions.....

Regards,
Amit Kulkarni
Visit me at http://amitkulkarni.cjb.net


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> Also if anybody could suggest any more similar kind of projects to do on the
> small GUI then i shall be grateful.
> Looking forward for interesting suggestions.....

First, I've to specify that I'm not a developer of microwindows
I'm just interested about the project andi follow it from a while (like
viewml)
but I'm only a..user:)


then i think it will be nice to have the porting of gtk on microwindows, with 3
ppl i think it will be not 
a long work , some weeks, and then import gnome and some gnome application
would be nice!

To have our preferred desktop manager on microwindows:) and a lot of usefull
program too!!

this is my idea but maybe it's better you wait someo 'guru' ideas:)

bye

good work

At 09:46 AM 9/23/00 +0530, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
>hi,
>I am a final year computer science undergraduate student in India and am
>searching for a 1 year project for 3 people.
>I came across the microwindows website and found the GUI interesting.
>Primarily i am thinking about writing a widget library for microwindows.
>Also if anybody could suggest any more similar kind of projects to do on the
>small GUI then i shall be grateful.
>Looking forward for interesting suggestions.....

It would be cool to have (a subset of) wxWindows (www.wxwindows.org) 
running on MicroWindows. As noted in previous emails, there could be 
different ways of doing this: (1) using the GTK+ port of wxWindows (2) 
using the WIN32 port of wxWin, (3) using the forthcoming 'generic' widget 
set being written for wxWin, which will sit on top of basic drawing 
primitives (which could themselves be implemented using either X or WIN32 
primitives). The generic port will also eventually work with MGL from 
SciTech Software, (http://www.scitechsoft.com/dp_mgl.html) which is a 
highly portable basic graphics layer: another interesting candidate for 
porting to MicroWindows.

Regards,

Julian
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hi all,

I am sorry if i am posting this again.
We are a group of 3 people and are in search for a 2 month educational and
reasearch project.
We found out this microwindows program extremely striking and would like to
possibly do some work on this platform.
The primary requirements might be stated as

1)  Must be finished within 2-3 months time
2)  Should primarily involve programming rather than porting

Our primary idea was writing a widget library atop microwindows.But we have
observed that fltk has been ported for microwindows.
I would really appreciate it if anybody could suggest a similar idea.

Regards,
Amit Kulkarni
Visit me at http://amitkulkarni.cjb.net

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*
*
* hi all,
*
* I am sorry if i am posting this again.
* We are a group of 3 people and are in search for a 2 month educational and
* reasearch project.
* We found out this microwindows program extremely striking and would like to
* possibly do some work on this platform.
* The primary requirements might be stated as
*
* 1)  Must be finished within 2-3 months time
* 2)  Should primarily involve programming rather than porting
*
* Our primary idea was writing a widget library atop microwindows.But we have
* observed that fltk has been ported for microwindows.
* I would really appreciate it if anybody could suggest a similar idea.


Here's a small but I think useful project...

 Write a 'dialog' equivalent in fltk/microwindows. It can be written from
scratch rather than ported, the only requirement is to have the same syntax as
the base curses program so that it can simply be dropped into existing shell
scripts.


This would give one application that could be used on both X and Nano-X and
would be useful on small distributions to add a nice UI to shell scripts.


Once the base functionality is there, add featues to wrap more FLTK widgets.

*
* Regards,
* Amit Kulkarni
* Visit me at http://amitkulkarni.cjb.net
*

richard.


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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> We are a group of 3 people and are in search for a 2 month educational and
> reasearch project.

Does it need to be a seperate project of your own, or could you contribute
to microwindows itself?

A couple of ideas:
* Add selection and drag and drop support to Nano-X. I have an API drawn
up for this that I never got around to implementing.
* Write some tiny Nano-X applications such as a program launcher, a
status/clock/launcher panel thingy, a file manager, an improved terminal,
a calendar/diary, an address book, etc.

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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> hi all,
Hi!

> I am sorry if i am posting this again.
Again ?

OK, here are my suggestions:
 - build a stable development environment for nano-X + fltk. There are
currently too many different versions floating around. It should have proper
font supprt _without_ freetype or type1 support (though it should be added in a
second step).
 - develop double buffering for nano-X
 - develop a stable and functional nanowm (or similar). The current version is
not very functional. What I personally would love to have is a WM that supports
own menus for windowing functions and proper configurable resources for window
decoration. What I have in mind is to run this system on a PDA later on. My
current concept for this is to have mostly all applications run fullscreen
without any decorations (no titlebar or something). Child windows should have
at least a small border by which they can be dragged and, selectable by the
application, have a titlebar. The windowmanager menu should include a window
list which can be used to switch between the applications. This menu should
popup using a hotkey or maybe an onscreen button.
 - Include a virtual keyboard and some handwriting recognition as widgets into
fltk. This would make it very easy for application developers to add a button
to select either keyboard, recognition or nothing as input. Those could be
implemented as seperate windows that can be moved around the screen.

I think this all would keep you busy some time ;)
If you intend to do this I would be glad to assist you in any though my time is
very limited at the moment.

> Regards,
> Amit Kulkarni
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: Our primary idea was writing a widget library atop microwindows.But we
have
: observed that fltk has been ported for microwindows.

We are actively involved porting FLTK to Nano-X, but it would
be great to port FLTK to the Microwindows win32 API.  This
is primarily a programming project, since Microwindows implements
an exact win32 api, and all that's needed is to implement those
unimplemented calls already coded in the FLTK for Windows
version.

Another very needed project would be to finish off the
custom controls for Microwindows win32 API.  These
controls include:

static, single line edit, multi-line edit, pushbutton, checkbox,
radio box, group box, list box, combo box.  In addition,
we could then add dialog management win32 style.  This
would interpret win32 .res files and allow Microwindows
to run them.  Thus programs laid out on MS VC++ systems
could run on Linux.

Regards,

Greg