> > > Thank you! I know that fltk-1.1.9 is the best one for me now. > > Though I see that one of your screenshots shows CJK text support, which > you will not get with fltk-1.1.9. > You will need to use 1.3 (or perhaps 2.x) to support CJK texts properly.
Thank you. For this application, I will try fltk-2.x or just give up support for the win9x. And I write a sketchy summary: 1. fltk-1.1.x support most platforms(including full support for the win9x) , but with least features(do not support CJK) 2. fltk-1.3.x support least platforms(do not support the win9x),but it is the stablest one with many features(including CJK, many widgets) 3. fltk-2.x support many platforms(support the win9x partly), with many new features(including full CJK, unicode, but may with less widgets than 1.3-x) Is it correct? > > > > > Can we ask what are you running that requires win9x=20 > > support?=20 > > > Yes. In fact, I want to develop a series of portable=20 > > cross-platform applications (such as TagSparker available at=20 > > http://sparkaround.com/download/) based on fltk. I hope these=20 > > applications is portable, small in size and easy to support=20 > > many platforms(as many as possible). > > OK, that seems like the fltk should work for you. > Are you actually seeing any demand for win9x support though? > I don't think I've seen a win9x box for several years, and I know that > we are not providing any support for win9x variants of our apps that are > released to customers or etc... > I don't know what percentage of computer users use the win9x box. It seemed that I need some latest statistical reports on the percentage. Thank you so much for the clues. > > > And I am not sure I have understood your advice here=20 > > completely. Can you describe your good results in detail?=20 > > What I meant was that, for a charity, we had received a load of old > win9x machines in various states of repair, and with no valid licences > and so forth. > These were cleaned up and had one of the lightweight Linux distro's > installed, along with various applications. > These machines were then redistributed, and they all seemed to work > pretty well - they ran at least as fast as they had with win9x on, and > stuff worked OK, and far fewer "virus" type issues than the win9x boxes > (some of these were badly infected when we received them...) > > > Do=20 > > you mean that I can migrate some old win9x codes to linux (or=20 > > just run the win9x binaries with wine) and rewrite these=20 > > codes with fltk-1.3 to support more platforms? > > All of the above, to be honest: for the charity stuff, we did run a few > old legacy programs under wine and that seemed to be fine. Not > blindingly quick, but they were slow machines anyway... > > For other work, where we had the fltk sources, we just recompiled and > that was fine. > The fltk code we had was written cross-platform anyway, so supporting > win9x was just a nuisance and it was good to drop it. > Thank you so much for the detailed charity. I understand now. Thanks. > > > > SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Limited > Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS= > 14 3EL > A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 > ******************************************************************** > This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended > recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. > You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or > distribute its contents to any other person. > ******************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
