Re: question to backend/gui guru...

[Sašo Kiselkov]

address@hidden wrote:
> Selon "Philippe C.D. Robert" <address@hidden>:
>
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 12.09.2006, at 11:29, address@hidden wrote:
> >     
> > > Some of the classes i might use :
> > > (picked up from
> > > www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Gui/Reference/)
> > >
> > > NSColor*
> > > NSCursor
> > > NSEvent
> > > NSFileWrapper
> > > NSFont*, NSGlyph*
> > > NSImage*
> > > NSGraphicsContext
> > > NSOpenGL*
> > > NSResponder
> > > NSScreen
> > > NSSound
> > >
> > > At least NSResponder and NSEvent will be very useful.
> > >       
> > If you use SDL and its event handling then you don't need those
> > classes as well as NSGraphicsContext , NSOpenGL* and friends. Also,
> > how would you want to use NSFont* and NSGlyph* in an OpenGL context?
> >
> > I assume it is a lot easier to use SDL for all this stuff rather than
> > tweaking gui to work w/ SDL. You are still able to use base, of
> > course. I've done that myself.
> >
> > -Phil
> > --
> > Philippe C.D. Robert
> > http://www.nice.ch/~phip
> >     
>
>
> You're probably right. I've read some appkit source files : all theses classes
> seem to be closely bound to each others... very hard to use one without using
> some others, and so on. (is this a design choice?)(ie: many classes use some
> NSPanel to display error message !)
>
> I've changed my roadmap : I code my project step by step and i'll add some
> gnustep classes only when i need them. At end if i really need a display
> server... well... I'll work on it.
>
> Thks
>
> Xavier
>
>
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Although that's right, you will miss out all the nice drawing 
capabilities of the PostScript graphics model, like random path filling, 
stroking, clipping, affine transforms and other complicated and nifty 
features. That is, unless you were to use libart or libcairo directly, 
of course.

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Saso