DOS Window Manager
David Cuny:
Your WinMan demo looks good. I'm looking forward to see more.
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>I've recently posted a program to the Euphoria Web page called
>WinMan. It provides the window manager services for a window's
>frame: maximizing, minimizing, resizing, dragging and closing.
>The look and feel is the monochrome "classic Macintosh",
>although color, and other look and feels will can supported.
>The functionality of WinMan would typically be provided by any
>decent graphical OS (Win32/Mac/X Windows). I've coded the window
>manager because it provides a base to work on a platform
>independant API. It also lays a code base for porting that API
>to DOS.
>As usual, WinMan is a "pre-alpha" demo. There are some *very*
>inefficent routines in the code. In the next version, I hope to
>incorporate Jiri's mouse routines and XOR graphics to make the
>drawing of the bounding box (used in dragging and resizing) much
>faster, as well as adding support for graphical mouse pointers.
>At some point, I expect to be asking the graphic experts to help
>me rewrite the "core" graphic toolkit.
>The next release may very likely provide another look-and-feel
>(perhaps OpenLook) to ensure that the API isn't accidentally
>tied to the Mac look and feel. I'm also playing around with the
>idea of geometry managers (like Tk uses) to handle the low-level
>window layout.
>This project will *not* intended to replace Win32Lib. In all
>likelihood, the top level API will look very much like Win32Lib,
>but support only the controls that can be reasonably ported to
>other operating systems - although all the controls that are
>currently in Win32Lib fall into that set.
>Any comments/concerns/criticisms?
>-- David Cuny =
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