Photon/QNX Good News (again)

Subject: Photon/QNX Good News (again)
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 08:03:27 CDT

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Sorry if this is a re-peat. I think that the
message never got sent out to the list so I'll
try this again ... without the screenshot since
Bob has added it to the website now.

Thomas

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Eric, Paul, Jeff, Shaw, Bob ... and all of you other
hard working contributors lurking on the list.
I have just finished checking in what I consider
to be a fairly significant patch.  I have updated
the abi/shots directory with screenshots of the 
qnx/photon version of the common dialogs.  In and
of itself this "patch" isn't much, but it represents
what I consider to be the catching up of the QNX/Photon
port of AbiWord with the Unix and Windows platforms.
What remains to be done at this point to bring things
in line is to look at some clean up of screen dirt
to handle things like scrolling rulers properly, and
the infamous "print it like you see it" bugs.
Why is this important?  Some of you may have heard 
about QNX's 1.4Mb floppy demo already.  QNX's next
initiative is going to be http://get.qnx.com which
is providing Neutrino + Photon + Development Tools +
Utilities free for non-commercial use.  The first 
public release of this "product" will be a beta 
seeding at next weeks QNX Users Conference in 
Vancouver.  
The fact that this cool word processor just works 
with this "new" operating system will likely interest
a number of people ... some of whom I'm hoping 
eventually want to help make AbiWord a better 
product than it is right now.
Just to give you an idea of what AbiWord running
under Photon looks like, I've included a screen
shot which I'm hoping can be "patched" onto the
AbiSource website screen shots area.
Additionally ... this is a polite heads up to 
take a look in the qnx directory when you are
adding new features etc and try to stub something
in.  We'll hopefully get a Neutrino box up and
running as part of the continuous builds soon.
Thanks for listening to this long message,
  Thomas
 

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