Re: GNUstep on MS Windows

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Gregory John Casamento 
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > As I said previously, unless we change the paradigm by which we are 
> > drawing the
> > views and handling events we cannot use the natvie widgets.  I 
> > honestly don't
> > see this happening in the short term, if ever.  This is the same 
> > reason GTK
> > widgets cannot be used from GNUstep classes.  I'm not saying it's 
> > impossible,
> > just that it will require a certain amount of uphieval in the 
> > architechture of
> > GNUstep itself.
> >
> >
> 
> Just for reference, the original backend (long, long, long time ago) 
> was structured similarly to what might need to be done, with a separate 
> backend class for each gui class, each responsible for drawing itself 
> and in some cases, handling events.  Besides the obvious code 
> duplication, there's the subclassing problem - what if you wanted to 
> subclass an NSButton? It's not possible in this case, at least not in 
> an easy portable manner.
> 


I believe I remember this.  The problem with this was that it's was odds with
the way it should be done in an OpenStep environment, which is, I assume, why
it was changed (the subclassing issue aside). :)  

The widgets and windows should draw themselves, not delegate to another class
to act as the actual widget.

Besides, aren't the Microsoft APIs written in C++??  

GJC

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