Re: [Adobe-source-devel] win32 and linux backends?

[Ralph T. <ra...@gm...>]

Personally I've found Win32 is more honest about control dimensions
than MacOS (i.e.: controls don't go outside the rectangle you tell
them to stay in, so you don't need the same "fudges" present in the
MacOS test/visual code).

Win32 doesn't have a GetBestControlRect analog, so you end up writing
your own. I've always ended up having to fudge the values given by
GetTextExtentPoint32W when calculating the best rectangle for text
containing controls (e.g.: button).

Are you planning on making the toolkit interface exactly the same for
Windows and MacOS (so that the same eve files could be used on both
platforms)?

Ralph

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:50:29 -0800, Sean Parent <sp...@ad...> wrote:
> Hi Niki,
> Starting to use our stuff is always good - We actually aren't doing
> Cocoa at the moment (it's Carbon, although there is some stuff being
> done with A&E internally in Cocoa). I would say there are two places
> where you could jump in -
> 
> We don't have Python bindings and I think they would be an interesting
> thing to have (and probably pretty simple to do - if you look at the
> command-line tutorial it is surprisingly simple to hook up). If you
> wanted to jump in on the Win32 side - I'd start with working on how to
> get good geometry out of controls (coordinate with Foster on that). I'd
> also love to have someone doing bindings to XAML.
> Sean
> 
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:54 AM, Niki Spahiev wrote:
> 
> >> A Win32 backend is definitely on our to do list, however we cannot
> >> give
> >> it as much time as we would like. There is no reasonable estimate as
> >> to
> >> when it will be ready for public release. In the meantime you can
> >> still
> >> see what Adam has to offer in the Adam command-line tutorial that was
> >> recently posted to CVS.
> >
> > Ok but command-line is not fun. Should i start porting from Cocoa to
> > win32 or wait?
> > Do you have python bindings? I tend to do all experiments in python
> > and will start to make python interface.
> >
> > regards,
> > Niki Spahiev
> >
> >
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