1. suggestions for mWin
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When do we get controls/buttons for dos?
My ideal for this library would be to have 1 library which you include =
in your project, and will automatically use platform() to detect what =
platform it is being run on, and use that platforms windowing system. So =
you could write one programme that would run in dos, windows, or X11 =
without changes. This would be brilliant, and should be not too =
difficult using platform() calls.
Nick
P.S. Please, please, please, pretty pleeeeaaaasseeee! :)
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>My ideal for this library would be to =
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library which you include in your project, and will automatically use =
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to detect what platform it is being run on, and use that platforms =
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system. So you could write one programme that would run in dos, windows, =
or X11=20
without changes. This would be brilliant, and should be not too =
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Nick</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>P.S. Please, please, please, pretty=20
pleeeeaaaasseeee! :)</FONT></DIV>
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2. Re: suggestions for mWin
Nick Johnson wrote:
> When do we get controls/buttons for dos?
I *might* have time to hack something simple this weekend. Keep in mind that
the API is in a state of flux; the Win32 and DOS libraries have drifted
apart. And things will change even more once some basic controls are
working.
For example, the DOS stuff now has a set of variables holding system colors:
WM_ActiveTitleColor, for example. This is absent in the Win32 code.
The code logic isn't that hard; most of it already exists (for example,
mgrButton). Some generic routines for centering text need to be ripped from
Dos32Lib. I'm more concerned with getting a design for the controls that's
modular enough to allow people to add new controls without too much trouble.
I'll no doubt gut a lot of code from Dos32Lib.
-- David Cuny
