On Tue, 05 Dec 2000, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Lee Brown wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 04 Dec 2000, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> >
> > > thanks for the invitation, but I'm still not convinced at all that this is
>something
> > > in any way related to the GGI project at all. icking and intersection
> > > tests. Have a look at libgwt or libwmh for that.
> >
> > The idea is to create an extension lib that would easily lend itself to porting
> > Gdk.
>
> That much I understood. The question remains: why an extension ? Why not a simple
> new library (or whatever) sitting on top of GGI ?
Windows and visuals share a common concept: they are both drawn onto. I don't
see any reason for mediation.
>
> > Currently this is libgwt since a lot of Gdk involves windows. Here's a
> > question for you: Should the window be drawn in the ggi_visual (a la minigui or
> > berlin) or should the ggi_visual BE the window? I would respect your opinion
> > on this and give it much thought.
>
> if each window uses its own visual, you still need something outside the realm of ggi
> to display these visuals in (and to deal with overlapping visuals, i.e. a region
>manager
> for visuals). From the point of view of berlin, the GGIVisual is the world.
> There is no notion of 'outside'.
Therein lies the rub. Still, I can see a solution to any problem that might
crop up here. To start with, perhaps only having one full screen top level
window allowed would simplify things. Do you think so?
>
> Regards, Stefan
> _______________________________________________________
>
> Stefan Seefeld
> Departement de Physique
> Universite de Montreal
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
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