Re: [paragui-users] gradient fix....

[Alexander Pipelka]

Am Freitag, 1. November 2002 19:30 schrieb Teunis Peters:
> On 1 Nov 2002, Alexander Pipelka wrote:
> > Maybe worth thinking about that. But i think it would be better to split
> > ParaGUI into several smaller libs (e.g. paraguibase, paraguiwidgets,
> > paraguilayout, ...).
>
> *heh* thought about that too - I don't know about the "widgets" per se -
> but the rest of the system's pretty inseperable.
> There's a lot of cross-dependencies.  At this point the only external
> dependencies the videodriver core has is with pgapplication and the
> fontlib (which really -should- be part of the graphics engine anyways) but
> that's one of the smallest cross-dependencies.
>
> note that the core won't work without the videodrivers..  'nuff on that
> one.  Although I'm still thinking of taking the SDL videodriver out and
> seperating it.
>
> Aside on SDL driver: due to the construction of certain platforms (ie:
> windows/directx), initializing SDL is kind of picky.  I'm going to attack
> this once I attack windows/directx.   All the core SDL functionality must
> be activated at once there (afaik) - video/sound/...
>
> The short answer?
> Some of the widgets could possibly be seperated into a widget-toolset.
> But other than that paragui's too full of crossdependencies to seperate
> much further.

At least the whole upcoming new layout loading stuff can be split off.

Alex