Gerry: > [...] I have a few thoughts I would like to run by y'all. > I hope this doesn't stir up a hornets nest, but I guess we'll see.
> FLTK2 > [...] It occurred to me that anyone that needed to do something > similar would end up writing the same code that I did. Now, I > realize that this probably tugs at the "Fast Light" part of FLTK > for some folks, but it seems like a lot of cases would require the > same code to be written over and over again. It doesn't seem like > a higher level layer would take anything away from the "Fast Light" > feature, if the lower layer was preserved. If you want the existing > "Fast Light" feature, then you would go for the existing (lower > level) api library. However, if your writing a business oriented > app, perhaps you would want a higher level more functional set of > widgets. Then, of course, you would link in the higher level > library. Various people have written their own "higher level" widgets for FLTK, see Article #884 What third party widgets are available for FLTK? http://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L884+I20+T+P1+Q In the discussions last year, there was general agreement on providing [or adopting] some "official" FLTK widgets reflecting the high level widgets that users have already identified. [make sense sentence yoda?] Some would be available via an additional library to avoid bloat and keep the "fast light" folks happy. > Low Level Abstraction Layer (HAL/PAL) > [...] > UTF8 > [...] The consensus among us is that we don't have enough knowledge > between us to actually make any significant contribution to the UTF8 > code. [...] I think that's true for most of us, which is why 1.3.x has progressed slowly since the people who knew about it (Matt, Ian and O'ksi'd) are now busy with other things. > Themes / Skins > [...] Personally I don't care about tweaking look and feel of interfaces: I keep the defaults so that I don't have to tweak it all again for each installation and re-installation. > CMake > We plan to bring the CMake build current. D. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
