> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:38 -0700, Nikita Egorov wrote: > > Dont forget that DirectFB is (at the moment, of course) > lowlevel library! > > For example : > > It has no methods to draw/fill arc and polygons. > I thought I might use Cairo to do those things.
I'd hazard that that would be a lot more work than just picking up Nikita's work and moving forward. Cairo is a lot of dependency to pull in for a lightweight GUI... > > Window managers have no decoration. > I haven't decided on a window manager yet, I was considering hacking > flwm. If you have a fixed "kiosk-style" interface on an embedded system (I think that's what you indicate later on) then it's not entirely clear you actually need a WM at all, you can just draw your widgets in the "right place"... I have done this, it worked OK. FWIW, I also had a hacked up version of aewm that I used for a variant that needed more conventional "windows". Either way works. > > To use a font you can only load it from specified file. > Pango? Is that not overkill just to load a font? If your application is indeed a fixed kiosk-style interface, then your fonts and so forth are (almost) certainly set at build time, so simply loading from a known file is trivial and much easier than messing with PanGo. > > It has no any functions to work with regions (regions can > be only rectangular). And so on. > > > > Do you plan to do it again (after me) ?.. > Hope not!! I need to study the API of DFB, FLTK and look at the code > you have already written to really make a comment. My needs are user > interfaces for machines so I have no interest in desktop style GUIs, a > single application runs from power-up to shutdown and usually the > hardware has limited resources. SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Limited Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 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-dev mailing list fltk-dev@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
