Subject: Re: Framebuffer version of Abi ?
From: ArcadePreserv Center (arcadepreserv@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 01:42:20 CST
An impressing list of supported platforms, what are the licence terms for
SciTech MGL ?
>From: "Tom Ryan" <tomr@scitechsoft.com>
>Reply-To: tomr@scitechsoft.com
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: Re: Framebuffer version of Abi ?
>Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:39:09 -0800
>
>On 9 Mar 00, at 9:59, Paul Rohr wrote:
> > AbiWord was designed to take advantage of the types of desktop
> > services typically offered by any modern GUI operating system, such
> > as:
> >
> > - 2d graphics and font-handling,
> > - image blitting and stretching,
> > - overlapping windows,
> > - dialogs,
> > - toolbars,
> > - pop-up menus,
> > - multi-button mice,
> > - keyboard input methods,
> > - etc.
>
>FYI. SciTech MGL (http://www.scitechsoft.com/dp_mgl.html) has
>all the features you mentioned above (well, maybe not toolbars)
>and it is very lightweight. SciTech MGL supports Windows, DOS,
>Linux, OS/2 QNX, SMX, RT-Target and others.
>
>We are currently considering either porting wxWindows to run
>natively on top of SciTech MGL, or doing a port of GTK to SciTech
>MGL. In either case, you would have all of the functions you need
>to run AbiWord just about anywhere. Since it is very low level
>library, SciTech MGL much easier to port to a new platform than
>AbiWord itself.
>
>A wxWindows port of AbiWord would be very helpful, since not only
>would you get Windows, GTK, Motif, MacOS and OS/2 (nearly
>there) support, but you would (eventually) be able to have a very
>lightweight version of AbiWord running on top of SciTech MGL as
>well.
>
>I said it before and I'll say it again: I wish all the effort spent on
>developing and keeping all the various AbiWord ports up to date
>(more dialog boxes anyone?), was instead spent completing the
>basic feature set that AbiWord needs to become a mainstream
>choice for word processing.
>
>..that's my $0.025
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Ryan
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