I would certainly be interested. Michael Latiolais [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Stephen Gates wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working on a desktop GUI applet in Java which replaces the AWT. > > I'm pretty fed-up of X, so I've taken an interest in this DirectFB. Although > I realise that GTK is already ported, I wouldn't mind working on porting my > applet to C++ to work under DirectFB. > > The desktop GUI applet is pretty similar to AWT, but has a few > differences... > > - Every GUI object (windows/icons/widgets) is descended from a single class, > and two classes descend from this - window objects and widget objects. > > - Window objects descend into frames and icons, and can only hold widget > objects. Each window class has a minimum of a panel object (descended from > the widget class), although other widgets may be added for titlebars and > minimize/maximize/close buttons. > > - There is a single desktop object which can only hold window objects (i.e. > frames and icons). This desktop object handle everything else (like > painting, events, pop-up menus etc). > > - There also exists a layout class which can be applied to window and panel > objects (which are special widget objects that can contain children). > > - Also, all GUI objects are painted via a single view register object which > contains a hashtable containing view objects. > > - All GUI object properties are held in a hashtable, allowing future > visual/rad tools to be built. > > - There is no window manager like X. > > It's very easy to program for (abit like QT) and is IMO quite elegant and > simple. Alot of things are missing and beyond my scope, but I wonder if > anyone is interested? > > Cheers, Steve > > > > > -- > Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject. > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
