nanogui: Re: nanoGui development
Subject:
RE: nanoGui development
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
4 May 1999 17:54:52 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905041845100.1155-100000@hyperspace>
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> I think its better to use ANSI C prototypes. bcc is the compiler that ELKS uses,
I agree.
> its a pretty good, small C compiler that compiles 16 and 32 bit. I have modifed
> it to compile ansi functions.
Interesting. Is it x86 only?
> In regards to GPM, I will abstract it to yet another mouse driver, which will allow
> any mouse driver to be used.
Fine. Alternatively you could just write a tiny replacement for GPM which
generates mouse-systems format data (_very_ simple) on a pipe, which is
what GPM repeater mode does.
> I would be interested in a bunch of other simple X programs to add to the test suite, though.
> We could create a #define header file to convert the function calls...
Is it just the names which are different, or are the arguments different
too? The first thing I'd like to get going is some kind of simple
Xterm-like program, then some kind of minimal window manager.
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