Re: [GUI] Opinion summary.

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:37:15PM +0100, Nick Name wrote:

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:13:53 +0000 Axel Simon wrote:

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I added a summary which I would like you to have a look at

I have read the summary, and there is one point I do not completely undestand: the one named "look and feel". Did you mean that we cannot achieve native look and feel *on all platforms* , and so we shall enable the user of the library to achieve native look and feel if he wants?

Oh no, the point should be: If you use the Common API you will (automatically) get applications which have a native look-and-feel. I think I confused you when I wrote: "We cannot achieve native look-and-feel by using a single cross-platform API ..." I meant back-end instead of API and wxWindows in an example. Thanks for pointing this out.

I think that by well-defining the in-famous high-level interface, one could solve the problem, but it will come later. This should be in the Common GUI API.

As a second point, we have to design the interface so that it's implementable for new backends that could come (but I cannot think of a way of NOT enabling this). I think this is the argument by Peter Aachten ("Object I/O is portable by design") which is later opposed by Krasimir ("Haskell's Object I/O library is too Windows specific as it is"). I added this pointer.

I update the document. Thanks for the early comments, Axel.