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From: | Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: | Re: [Axiom-developer] browser front end, statement of plans and progress |
Date: | 27 Jan 2007 02:36:18 -0600 |
Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes: | > I've been looking deeply into the problem of using a web browser | > as the front end for axiom. There are 3 components: | > | > 1) replace the graphics | > 2) replace hyperdoc | > 3) make an interactive front end | > | > Consider problem 1, replace the graphics. | > | > Currently our graphics are written in C and use X11. | > The graphics program is really a standalone C program that | > communicates to the rest of the system thru sman. | > | > X11 has been a problem because we cannot port this to windows easily. | > I did manage to get hyperdoc working on windows using an X11 hosting | > program but decided that this was not a good long term solution and | > never released it. | > | | X11 problem should be easy to solve: use portable drawing library. Qt is available under windows http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/windows and so is FLTK http://www.fltk.org/ I'm not quit convinced yet that the idea of removing the all the C codes from Axiom is a good idea. -- Gaby
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