nanogui: Suggestion for microwindows controls
Subject:
RE: Suggestion for microwindows controls
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
3 Mar 2000 01:19:16 -0000
Message-Id: <C1962B36D9BBD311B0F80060083DFEFB07032D@SYS.CenSoft.COM>
: I came across a library similar in some ways to
:microwindows. This thing is
:called MiniGUI, and it's a library that tries to implement the
:Win32 API for
:svgalib. After some tweaking, I sucessfully compiled the whole
:thing and the
:demos programs. One thing I can say is, pretty good! The first
:I noticed is
:that theres a lot of already avalaible controls with it, like
:buttons, list
:box, combo box, and stuff like that... but, this thing is still alpha
:software (I guess), and the guys that wrote it speaks chinese, so some
:default texts are in chinese.
I'm already ahead of you. I recently spent 4 days and completely
ported Mr WEI's MiniGUI, which depends on a modified
version of SVGAlib, to Microwindows graphics engine, using
Linux framebuffer. He will be releasing another cut soon
that will incorporate much more closely with Microwindows,
which he has now chosen to use as his base graphics
platform, since Microwindows can run on both SVGAlib
and framebuffer.
: I think that this could be a good starting point for
:adding various
:controls to microwindows, so some "real" apps can actually be
:written :) I
:looked at the code of both microwindows and MiniGUI,
Yes, Mr WEI has done a great job in building the upper
level sides of a win32 api by including the basic custom controls.
I am currently working with Mr WEI to get him to allow me
to include the custom controls in Microwindows. Currently,
MiniGUI is GPL only, and we are MPL & GPL. He says
that it won't be a problem, especially since I have converted
his project to run on framebuffer, one of his key desires. There
are a number of small issues regarding painting non-client
areas, but I don't think will be too much a problem.
I have extensively studied the MiniGUI implementation, and
think that many of the custom controls will be useful. The base
windowing system requires pthreads, and is built around a
different architecture. Also, MiniGUI will ONLY run on 8bpp.
My plan is to port all the controls shortly. In addition, Mr WEI
will contribute multi-byte enhancements to Microwindows,
as well as getting chinese fonts running.
Regards,
Greg
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