Hello All, First let me say thanks to all of you that took the time to answer the questions in my previous posts. I really appreciate your help.
I have managed to put a small group of developers together to work on what amounts to a combined wish list. We have all used various toolkits in the past, but have always wanted to use FLTK. However, the thing we all agree on is that there are a few things we would like FLTK to do differently. We have spent a couple of days discussing this and looking at the FLTK source. It was decided that the best way to proceed is to pick up one of the FLTK versions. We have narrowed it down to 1.1.9 or 1.3.0. Any advice on this would be appreciated. We also need to come up with a name for the project. Someone suggested FLNG, but that's as far as we went. Again, any suggestions would be welcome and appreciated. Our discussion also resulted in some initial tasks, which I've listed below. 1. CMake - We all use CMake so the first order of business is to create a CMake build. 2. Doxygen - We plan to add Doxygen headers throughout the source. We believe that it will create a valuable reference resource. It will also be a good way to get more familiar with the current source. 3. Platform layer - Analyze and rework (where necessary) any platform specific code (including #ifdef) and push it down to the platform layer rewriting in c, where necessary. 4. SDL - Add SDL support as a test of the platform layer design. This should be possible without making any changes above the platform layer. These 4 items would represent the first milestone. We intend to make snapshots available for each of the above items as they are completed. Note: I should probably mention that we don't intend to include FLUID in this work. It will probably be removed if/when the platform layer work breaks it. This is why we plan to do snapshots of each step. If someone just wanted a CMake/Doxygen build they could pick it up with FLUID included. Disclaimer: We/I have the utmost respect for the developers/creators of FLTK. We are not doing this work because we believe our skills or ideas to be any better than anyone else's. We are just a group of people with a slighly different vision of how we would like to use FLTK. We are stepping up to do the work ourselves, instead of expecting someone else to do it for us. We do, and always will, give full credit and our thanks to the FLTK development team for the excellent work they have done. It would be very nice if our work could benefit the FLTK project in some way. FYI: When we get a web site up, I will come back and post the URL. Thanks Again, Gerry _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
