Subject:
RE: [nanogui] Widget library within the nanoX approach ...
From:
Junior ####@####.####
Date:
25 Jan 2007 19:25:18 +0000
Message-Id: <E8A7EEA94A6.00000692ejr@inbox.com>
Have you looked at www.tnw2000.org ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ####@####.####
> Sent: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:35:45 -0800
> To: ####@####.####
> Subject: RE: [nanogui] Widget library within the nanoX approach ...
>
> I made a mistake, my program is 2.3MB but the total is correct, about
> 5MB.
> I run on x386 PC architecture with all FLTK fonts, all English.
> Because Linux compresses its image and decompresses when booting, the
> actual size of your image will not be known until you try it.
> You cannot just add files sizes, they will all get zipped.
> Even your test 164kB program will take less memory, try zipping it to
> see how much.
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alberto La Rosa ####@####.####
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:28 AM
> To: Martin Kajdas
> Cc: Junior; ####@####.####
> Subject: RE: [nanogui] Widget library within the nanoX approach ...
>
> It sounds very good! :-)
>
> Please, which architecture are you using? ARM or PPC or X86?
>
> Do you think it could also work with MMU-less processor, in example
> through uClinux on a Xilinx Microblaze or Freescale Coldfire
> architecture?
>
> Referring to fonts... I am looking to support far east fonts as well?
> Any experience? I know that these fonts usually are hungry in space...
> and I was not able to make them work under nanoX (I am still too much
> unfamilar with nanoX ...).
>
> Many thanks.
> Alberto
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Martin Kajdas wrote:
>
>> I also am working on embedded platform with 8MB of flash memory.
>> When I compile my FLTK + nanoX + nxlib My program is about 1.2 MB
>> statically linked.
>> Then there is about 2 MB of Linux stuff and fonts.
>> The FLTK program generates about 30,000 lines of C++ code, not
>> including include files, nanoX nor nxlib.
>> I only use C++ for graphical UI, everything else is in C.
>> The program has Ethernet, USB, VGA, and printer support and runs RTAI
>> real-time Linux extensions.
>>
>> My total Flash memory image is about 5MB, but then I have 256 MB of
>> DDR RAM for running everything including RAM disk. No mechanical disks
>
>> anywhere.
>> If you do not go overboard on C++ features, the programs are not much
>> bigger than C.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alberto La Rosa ####@####.####
>> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:01 AM
>> To: Junior
>> Cc: Martin Kajdas; ####@####.####
>> Subject: RE: [nanogui] Widget library within the nanoX approach ...
>>
>> I forgot to highlight that I am targetting an embedded application and
>
>> avoid to use C++ could be usefull in order to reduce both static and
>> dinamic memory footprint.
>>
>> I just run the FTLK hello_word example... and I got a 164K stripped
>> executable on my i686 X11 linux workstation (not within nanoX! do I
>> have to expect very different results?).
>>
>> I hope a C based approach will save memory!
>>
>> Ciao!
>> Alberto
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Junior wrote:
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ####@####.####
>>>> Sent: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:31:10 -0800
>>>> To: ####@####.#### ####@####.####
>>>> Subject: RE: [nanogui] Widget library within the nanoX approach ...
>>>>
>>>> A lot of folks use FLTK widgets with nanoX + nxlib, me included and
>>>> it works very well.
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's for those who uses C++, I believe most, including me, don't.
>>>
>>> --Jr.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Alberto La Rosa ####@####.####
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:26 AM
>>>> To: ####@####.####
>>>> Subject: [nanogui] Widget library within the nanoX approach ...
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for a widget GUI library to be used on top of NanoX.
>>>>
>>>> I found nanoGTK project but it looks like to be not maintained any
>> more.
>>>>
>>>> : ftp://ftp.microwindows.org/pub/microwindows
>>>> :
>>>> : There are three files named:
>>>> :
>>>> : NanoGTK-1.0-src.tgz
>>>> : NanoGTK-1.0pre1-shared.tgz
>>>> : NanoGTK-1.0pre1.tgz
>>>>
>>>> I would like to ask you which alternatives there are and which you
>>>> suggest to look at if I would like to use nanox and have a widget
>>>> library comfortable to use for building GUI.
>>>>
>>>> NanoX alone seems to be very very basic in functionalities, and in
>>>> the best of my understanding I will have to develop all my custom
>>>> widget from scratch, isn'n it?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Alberto
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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