nanogui: FLTK and other things
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Re: FLTK and other things
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Date:
6 Mar 2000 15:22:09 -0000
Message-Id: <20000306124336.B11140@www.easysolutions.net>
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> You're not going to :). The simple answer is that Nano-X is not
> compatible with X11. It looks to me that FLTK was initially written
> for X11, but basically Nano-X!=X11, and its questionable as to whether
> it will try to be. However, while microwindows!=Win32... its a LOT
> closer. Maybe someday we'll have a x11 compatibility libs type
> thingee like Alan was talking about for microwindows, but we don't
> now, nor will we have for some time to come more than likely. (I'm
> not holding my breath :>)
>
I hate to respond immediately to my own post, but I'd like to expand
that last statement real quick. Alan Cox mentioned in passing that we
might want to have a microwindows compatibility lib to sort of munge
various commands in Win32 into unixish type stuff. Like GlobalAlloc
to malloc(). I think this is a good idea, but we could expand it to
include a Nano-X speak to X11 speak, this I imagine would make porting
stuff based on X11 much easier, i.e. switch over those Gd calls. I
think this would be a fairly major undertaking though...
Anyway just a expansion on that which came before..., which is sort of
the condition of mankind anyway :).
Shane.
