On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:54 -0800, Gene Buckle wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: > > > Here's the thing. FlightGear uses a gui widget set that is implemented on > > top of OpenGL. This has many advantages from a portability standpoint and > > from the standpoint of integrating with window systems. "Pui" doesn't have > > every feature under the sun, but it was never meant to. It's relatively > > small, lean, mean, and written on top of OpenGL which makes life *much* > > easier for us. > > > Would it be possible (or even reasonable?) to strip out the GUI portion of > plib (essentially divorcing it from the bits that are un-needed/wanted)? > > The idea being that if plib was stripped down to only the essential > elements needed to support the GUI functionality, it might be more > managable to improve incrementally as time goes on. The library could be > renamed "GUIGear" and be maintained along with the other *Gear projects. > It would also have the advantage of dropping an external library > dependancy. > > g.
I wonder if it would be better to adopt OSG's gui rather than forking plib? As I understand the current state of affairs, PUI is lightyears ahead of OSG's gui system though. Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
