On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Adam Strohl wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > VESA syscons, either using libvgl and an array of crude widgets or
> > something like MGR and its widget set, has long been on the wish-list
> > but I didn't even include it in my summary since it's still very much
> > a pipe-dream. :-)
>
> Hmm, this has been a fantasy of mine, as well. I was hoping to assist
> with the syscons code enough so that we could get a simple primative API
> down for drawing graphics on the screen, but my job seems to be taking up
> any time I'd have to do that now, hopefully that will change :P
>
> However, the syscons cleanup is proceeding anyway from what I've seen on
> the list.
>
> As long as we have basic graphics drawing, we'd be able to impliment our
> own widgets, if need be. I don't know how big the requirements for libvgl
> are, or how much spare space on that second floppy we have, though.
As I said, I know of two examples of more or less complete GUIs, which are
either ported to libvgl or can be fairly easily ported. Both of them take
about 100kB.
Andrzej Bialecki
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