On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:13:03PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Today I got in first contact with pgui. And it is more or less, what I was
> searching for. I did try twin before. It is minimalistic too, but
> text-only. And pgui has this nice "the server does all" feature, which
> keeps the clients really small. Good for me and my system. I do not plan
> to let it run on any embedded system, but maybe on my favorite os EmuTOS,
> an replacement for the original Atari TOS rom. Unusual, maybe. But also a
> small system.
> 
> I would like to try a little game or a ported text editor for PGUI. I have
> some ideas... 

That's cool. Though you might find some features missing for that... keep bugging me 
to fix the textbox widget and add memory-mapped bitmaps ;)

> 
> But first I have some questions:
> 
> - Is there any method to get the whole web documentation for reading
> offline

The Wiki wouldn't make much sense offline.. you can generate the Doxygen docs and the 
pgui-protocol document from sources in CVS.

> - Could somebody give me a pgserver.conf for Linux console? My mouse is
> not working and I then have to reboot hard.

What kind of mouse?

> 
> 
> BTW, would it be a hard work to revive the Win32 pgserver? What is the
> reason, that it is marked as not working? Win32 is one of the most used
> platforms! I could imagine, that it could be a wonderful visualisation for
> data coming somewhere from the net, maybe a java coded application. It
> would be something like a thin client (although the server does all).  :-)

It could be useful, but as far as I can tell Win32 isn't the most used platform around 
here :)
If you want to do that port, I'll give you advice, but I haven't seen anyone yet with 
enough interest in picogui on windows to do the work.

> 
> 
> In some applications I saw loops, that did make use of select(), e.g. in
> the pterm program. Do I always have to go that lowlevel for to write
> applications, that react on external events? Are there other methods to
> pass events in a standard way? 

There's a pretty sane system for recieving events from the picogui server and other 
apps. You'd only have to use select() yourself when dealing with non-picogui 
applications, devices, or anything you'd wait on a file descriptor for. This is 
entirely an artifact of the client library, so expect cli_c2 to have something better 
when it ever gets written. There's also cli_python, which is really cool.


> 
> Are there any bigger applications done with PGUI? Some, where I could have
> a look at the source?

Most of the PicoGUI apps are in CVS... I doubt there are any really big apps for it 
yet, because the textbox widget is IMHO a pretty big limitation.


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