RE: Jeremy Self
- Posted by Patrick.Barnes at transgrid.com.au Jan 31, 2003
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Well, would it be difficult to leave the paridigms and interface in place, and write a giant 'wrapper' for xwindows or some similar thing? >> >> On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:54 pm, you wrote: >>> >>> > Why isn't Win32Lib x-plat?! >>> >>> What is "x-plat"? >> >> cross-platform >> >Ha ha ha. > >My guess is that the name "win32" has something to do with that. It seems >to imply "MS-Windows 32-bit" in my mind. Also, right from the outset, David >Cuny and others, seemed to hard code Windows specific paradigms and >literals into the library. It never seems to have been designed to be >cross-platform and would now require a complete, ground-up, rewrite to get >there - breaking just about all the code using it. > >The 'llama' product is one attempt at producing a cross-platform GUI for >Euphoria. *********************************************************************** ***********************************************************************