Subject: Re: QNX Port update (was Re: More Donuts :-()
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 21:48:14 CST
At 07:49 AM 3/1/00 -0500, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
>Oh Shaw ... your not trying to juice up a bit of the competitive
>spirit in me are ya =;-)
ROTFL. Oooh, I just *love* it when hackers get competitive. All *sorts* of
tasty features get coded then. ;-)
>I know that there are probably _few_ people using the BeOS
>port (no active maintainer at this time!) and that I'm one
>of three people using the QNX Port. I've not doubts that
>this will change in time as the ports get a bit more spit
>and polish added to them.
Actually, over 8000 people have downloaded the 0.7.7 BeOS binaries, plus
almost 2000 0.7.8 downloads to date. If that's your definition of _few_,
then we're in serious trouble. ;-)
>Just for the lurkers out there ... my personal opinion
>is that the Photon port is now creeping ahead of the
>BeOS port. The only _main_ functionality missing is
>printing support (added this weekend if all goes well).
>Of course with all of these dialogs coming fast and
>furious I've got lots of catch-up work to do.
Wow. That's great. Be sure to keep Bob posted about which cells in the UI
matrix are ready for testing:
http://www.abisource.com/ui_matrix.html
So long as you keep on cranking, I presume that fewer and fewer will stay
red. (Of course, he'll need a QNX build machine to test your work on, but
we can figure that out offline.)
>The last real thing that I'm missing is support for
>bullet entries. I suspect that this will be provided
>when we get our list support in place ...
Yep.
>and will
>also mean that the graphics classes will need some
>sort of "draw circle/elipse" function.
IIRC, we decided that bullets should be drawn as font-specific characters,
so that the sizing and placement works properly (in a typographic sense).
Paul
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