Re: mgSTEP as demo for framebuffer backend?

[Ethan C]

Hi Andrew,

On 11/7/24 22:16, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:

For some reason  subscribing to list does not work for me, so I only saw your reply in archive ...

mgSTEP in this case surely was  run on top of X11, but it can be switched compile-time to framebuffer.

    Ah. Well, I think mgSTEP forked more than a decade ago, and GNUstep,
    although slower than other projects, has made enough changes that it
    will be likely hard to simply merge in the framebuffer backend. But
    one of the gnustep-back developers should know better.

speaking about modern Qt - it become  ... a bit massive in last 25+ years ... so I do not thinking anything lighter will be "competing" with it

    I was just trying to think of usecases in which framebuffer backend
    would be useful, and the first thing that came to mind was
    automotive. But clearly that's not something that GNUstep is likely
    to go into.

Perhaps i should put it on github, so internals will easier to discuss

Also, I was surprised someone did GUI/window (one window) demo in Forth!

https://github.com/gopalkrishnareddy/awesome-iOS-resource/blob/master/Books/Mac%20Os%20X%20Internals%20-%20A%20Systems%20Approach.pdf

"Figure 415 shows a rudimentary implementation in Open Firmware of a window that can be dragged.[15]"