On Friday 27 March 2009 06:12:32 am Pedro Vale de Gato wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm preparing to commit my MDILayoutPanel patch
> (http://trac.dabodev.com/ticket/1137)
> Paul suggested to place it in dabo.lib
>
> As this is windows only, wouldn't it be better to use for example
> dabo.lib.win ou even dabo.platform.win?
>
> I think sooner or later we're gonna need this platform specific
> seccion's in dado... what's your opinion?
>
> Regards,
> Pedro Vale de Gato

This request bring up all kinds of feelings within me.  

First I HATE the fact that we do anything to accommodate the different 
platforms.  This violates the cross platforms promise.

But we live in the real world and it is imperfect.  So we need to do 
something.  In the past I have noticed that what was provided for one 
platform has been provided for all the platforms.  IOW if some Class, method 
or function required platform specific code it was made functional for all 
platforms or it was not included in Dabo.  For example there is no wrapper 
for the native printer dialog.  I think the reason is there is no cross 
platform way making it work (just my guess).  Therefore, the use of a native 
printer dialog is left to the developer to code (wx.PrintDialog does not work 
on Linux).

So my first question is have you attempted to find a cross platform way of 
providing MDI windows?  Will your solution work with CD?  



-- 
John Fabiani

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