TonyTebby wrote:
> In the PC / Unix world, a slow system is less than 500 - 1000 MIPs
> ProWesS is fast on very slow systems (50 MIPS) and works well on
> extraordinarily slow systems
This is true. Nonetheless it has a response time of approximately one
second on my 400Mhz system, which is just too much, especially
compared to the not measurable response time of WMAN.
>> However, as you said, ProWesS is a very nicely put together sample of
>> object coding
> Wrong!!! It's an outstanding achievement.
Like many things it was too much ahead of its time.
>> greatly simplifying many tasks.
> Greatly simplifying, but still requiring programming skills
>> >
>> > With ProWesS, the COMPLETE code to write a 'Hello World' program in
>> > its own movable window is :
>> >
>> > #include "ProWesS_h"
>> >
>> > void init()
>> > {
>> > PWObject window;
>> >
>> > PWCreate(NULL,&window,PW_TYPE_LOOSE_ITEM,
>> > PW_LOOSE_TEXT, "Hello World",
>> > NULL);
>> > PWActivate(window);
>> > }
>> >
> If you find this incomprehensible, try deciphering the standard C++ "Hello
> World", I've tried and I failed. I think I'll stick with assembly language.
> There are other simpler methods. How about
> alert('Hello World') .... (Javascript)
> Perhaps instead of pursuing WMAN, we could try an HTML / CSS window manager?
> The main difficulties are the font and image rendering and Joachim has
> really mastered that.
> Tony Tebby
Marcel
