Re: question to backend/gui guru...

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On 11.09.2006, at 20:59, address@hidden wrote:
> I take some time to look inside NSApplication code. This class  
> highly depends
> on graphic display. It seems to me that it would be easier to write a
> SDLApplication class with a partial NS-like interface, and then use  
> the only
> AppKit classes that dont need any display output (not so easy to  
> find :-\ )
> And i will follow your advice and create a scaledown SDL backend  
> that will
> only handle events.
> I might also need a SDLWindow class (singleton!) to receive window  
> specific
> events (iconify, expose...), and maybe a SDLOpenGLView class...

What are you actually trying to come up with? And what AppKit classes  
would you need exactly in your code? SDL already gives you a lot of  
this functionality you mention. So it might be easier to just use  
gnustep-base + SDL for what you have in mind? This is straight  
forward today, when I did it years ago I had to cleanup the SDL  
source first, removing all the variables called 'id' ;-)

-Phil
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