Am Sonntag, den 20.01.2008, 01:30 +0100 schrieb Damien Gerard:
> On Jan 20, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Marc Santhoff wrote:
>
> > Am Samstag, den 19.01.2008, 22:41 +0100 schrieb Damien Gerard:
> >> Anyway, are you saying fpGUI would be really interesting for embedded
> >> apps ? If yes That's interesting indeed.
> >
> > As far as I understood it, fpGUI uses the Xlib directly to draw it's
> > widgets. Graeme knows all the details, but if it is so, the complete
> > GTK
> > is superfluous. That makes at least approx. 1,5 MB on disk and one
> > software layer less.
>
> Without any integration with the rest of the OS.
> You still have the same count of software layers.
fpGUI --> Xlib
my program --> GTK1 --> Xlib
LCL --> GTK1 --> Xlib
One layer less, if you ask me.
> > Okay, RAM is getting bigger,
>
> It does not really matter for me, if it is not like Firefox :)
On little embedded computers it does matter. The best option for me
personally would be to use a small ARM9-SOC but up to now the ones I
tested have been too slow or were not capable of driving an LCD.
> > Flash is getting faster
>
> hum sure ? Like Silverlight, Taking 120% of my CPUs is not fast for
> me :) But it is another debate.
Sorry for being unclear here, I'm talking about flash memory chips.
> > And it would squash some GTK-bugs including workarounds to make the
> > system work as expected.
>
> Always speaking about GTK-bugs but what about fpGUI bugs ?
As said, I have not started evalutating yet. If I find bugs in fpGUI,
I'll tell Graeme. ;)
> > For me that's an attractive advantage.
>
>
> Anyway, I think I will have to test by myself, make an hello world
> project in a first time, then a pseudo complete one. Because I still
> don't see any real advantage. The first inconvenient for me is the
> integration with the system. I think programmers should keep at least
> native dialog windows.
The device I'm writing the program for is sort of a kiosk thingy, no
system dialogs for the user at all. YMMV is true here as always. But
embedded systems are the main topic here.
Marc
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