nanogui: Nano-X API Manual
Subject:
Re: Nano-X API Manual
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
20 Mar 2000 18:35:48 -0000
Message-Id: <014401bf9299$97450e00$15320cd0@gregh>
: I will post this tomorrow, because I forgot to put David I. Bell in the author
: list. And I don't want to make him angry. He wrote most of the stuff. I just
: setup the stuff in a more nice manner (SGML+DocBook) and hope that this will
be
: a good reference for programmers which like to use the nano-X API.
Yes, don't forget David - he singlehandedly created the whole thing
back in 1991. Even if it did only run on minix.
: Also it would be nice, if you would have a look on it and send me corrections
or
: suggestions. Also I don't know anything about the new font related routines.
Are
: they implemented for the engine, or for the nano-X API too - or both?
The font routines are implemented for the Nano-X api presently, and of
course are implemented in the engine. I'll provide more details of the
new api's shortly; the api is growing currently because of all the activity.
:
: I can provide this manual SGML, HTML, RTF, formats, not as PDF or PS - these
do
: not work on my Linux Installation - don't know why!
I think html is the way to go, then I and others can update them without special
tools.
It's important to me that whatever docs get created, be kept up, so think
simple.
When a new api element is engineered, the creator would then document it ;-)
: I have a chapter about widget sets. There is just one available (for nano-X
API)
: till now - NanoWidgets. Is that right? Aren't there older widget sets from the
: time of mini-X? It was very hard to find at least mini-X on the web. Is it
: integrale part of minix?
There are no widget sets for mini-X. The NanoWidget set is basically
going nowhere, although Vidar said he'd update it. The master plan at this
point is to bring on Gdk/Gtk+ and QT widget sets, as well as the currently
being worked on FLTK C++ widgets. Using existing api's is better than
creating new ones in most cases, IMHO.
:
: Is David I. Bell working on nano-X too? Or is this stuff just history for him?
Nope. Only history. He knows of this list, and may read it. But we all
appreciate his seminal work.
Regards,
Greg
