Re: Framebuffer port, again!


Subject: Re: Framebuffer port, again!
From: Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 05:00:10 CST


On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:

> framebuffer <--> GDK <--> GTK <--> AbiWord, etc.

You're missing a layer there. GDK expects to run on top of
a windowing system, not a graphics library. You need it to
provide the usual GUI things like multiple overlapping
windows and event management.

Font and palette management ar euseful too, though they can
I believe, be done inside GDK if your platform doesn't provide
the necessary functionality itself.

MAtthew.



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