Re: [GUI] Common GUI API : What would the code look like?

--- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net> wrote:

John Meacham wrote:

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if 90% of toolkits ignore the name anyway, forcing a user to specify them always would probably result in people giving them meaningless names anyway if they don't know what they are for.

I am in agreement with John here.

The proportion of toolkits doesn't matter; if you want to write code which works on all toolkits, you have to have a name.

I think writing code which works on all tookits is out of the scope of CGA. However, as Glynn agreed to before, names are not a requirement for a Motif backend. They simply would not play ball extremely well with the Motif style (but good enough IMHO), which should be noted is absent in most modern GUI API's. David J. Sankel