On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 08:57 +0100, MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote: > 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... > None of the projects I'm now doing require the advanced graphic capabilities of Cairo, I just threw Cairo out as an answer to Nikita's objections.
> > 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. > The only feature of a window manager I wanted is the frame and window decorations and possibly the ability to move some pop-up dialog boxes with the pointer. I've used Qt Embedded to do a GUI on Linux framebuffer (not DirectFB) and it offers the option of running your application as the window manager, that's the feature I want but in GTK incorporating window manager features are frowned upon and I haven't seen any features like that in FLTK. > > > > 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. > I agree. My fonts and graphics are loaded from files who's location are hard-coded into the program and I think that's appropriate for this sort of application. Before I comment further I need to study the code. I want to, starting with Nikita code, complete a port of FLTK to DirectFB, something that is useful to someone wanting to build a full desktop or like me that just wants a full screen dedicated app. Am I asking for too much? I have a few projects that could pay for my time in this development. Regards __ Ormund _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list fltk-dev@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
