[Pgui-devel] Use multiple timers within a widget

2001-05-11 Thread Yu-Jui Lee
Hi, I'm extending the widgets for my own application. I found PicoGUI seems to have only one timer for each widget. Can I create more timers for a widget? Thanks! Yu-Jui Lee _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail

[Pgui-devel] Re: Few questions

2001-05-11 Thread Yu-Jui Lee
>>3) I noticed that that applications weren't always asserting themselves >>over apps that were already running. Like when I had some bar running, >>and the canvas animation, then tried to launch the calculator, nothing >>appeared to happen. Although the calculator was running, so either it w

[Pgui-devel] Email unclogged?

2001-05-11 Thread Micah Dowty
Well, I think I have finally cleared my backlog of email needing attention. If I forgot you, just let me know. It was out of absentmindedness, not malice ;) -- To the systems programmer, users and applications server only to provide a test load. ___

Re: [Pgui-devel] Few questions

2001-05-11 Thread Micah Dowty
Well, in my experience the Dragonball-based PDAs have had the longest battery life. Then again, maybe I'm just minimalist? I just tend to think that anything over 100mhz is severe overkill for a PDA and that 16 or 32mhz should be enough for 90% of anything you would use a PDA for. It would sti

Re: [Pgui-devel] Few questions

2001-05-11 Thread Micah Dowty
Well, if a good method of uniquely identifying the widgets (converting a name or ID to registration function pointer) can be worked out, dynamically-loaded widgets would be a good compile-time option. It could be a lot like compiling modules for Linux. As far as the Java goes, throughout this p

Re: [Pgui-devel] Few questions

2001-05-11 Thread Shane Nay
> This is what will also happen with CLDC and MIDP, the environment that Sun > has designed for mobile appliances like cell phones. > > It is unlikely that existing Java applications will be run on portable > devices of PDA size w/o partial re-implementation, in particular if they > were initiall

Re: [Pgui-devel] Few questions

2001-05-11 Thread Pascal Bauermeister
Shane Nay wrote: ... > > The same thing could be said about Java, but given the target hardware and > > existing apps, Waba seems like a good choice for what SMARTDATA (and > > everybody else working on a linux-based handheld) is doing. > > Maybe. But you are also taking away one of the main ben

Re: [Pgui-devel] Few questions

2001-05-11 Thread Shane Nay
> So, do you mean compile-time modularization or run-time? Both :). Like apache. > Compile time options would be great, a lot like the optional panelbars are > now. Changing application managers at runtime wouldn't be too hard to > implement, but I don't see how this is useful. As far as movin

Re: [Pgui-devel] Comments on the new build system

2001-05-11 Thread Frederic Gobry
> - I noticed that the 'make install' in cli_c doesn't install the header > files right. It needs to copy the include/picogui/*.h files to a new > directory, /usr/local/include/picogui, but instead it copies them to > /usr/local/include. It should be fixed in CVS now... > - Tim reported problems