Re: Portable Window Library
I'd love to see it! If it has enough support and people want to use it on
a large scale basis, I'd even try to write a cross-platform version of
EuDesigner for it.
Brian
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:28:23 -0800, Cuny, David at DSS <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV>
wrote:
>Jiri's tools reminded me of a project that I was working on a couple months
>back - a portable window library. It's a very low level library, along the
>lines of what's provided by Euphoria's DOS toolkit.
>
>The Win32 version of the library is fairly complete, and a working X Window
>prototype exists (it can create windows and draw lines). A DOS version was
>planned, but I hadn't gotten around to coding it.
>
>The library consists of about 30 difference routines to create and destroy
>windows and render graphics and text. It also traps mouse, keyboard and
>window events. There's a canvas-like structure, so double buffered graphics
>is also supported.
>
>Since the goal was to create a small library, I've tried to keep the
feature
>set at a usable minimum. I've also modeled the routines after low-level
>calls available in the Win32 and X Window library, so there's not a lot of
>fancy code.
>
>Is there any interest in seeing this library completed? If so, I'll post
the
>code on my web page, along with an overview and some demos, so I can get
>some feedback on it. If anyone wants to help complete it (or take the
>project over), that would be appreciated as well.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-- David Cuny
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