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

[Foster T. B. <fbr...@ad...>]

> How much interaction is there supposed to be between the ui-core code
> (window_t, button_t...) and application code? Is it all meant to
> happen through Adam and Eve, is there ever a circumstance where you
> want to touch a button_t directly from application code?

Our contention is that if you are coding to the semantics of the 
widget, beating on the platform widget directly should not be 
necessary. If you are finding a need to do so, you should ask yourself:

Am I trying to do something that would go against the semantics of the 
widget (irrespective of the API)? If yes, consider another widget for 
what you are trying to do. If not, what is lacking in the API that 
would improve its reflection of the semantics of the widget? The answer 
to this could be a good change to the API for the widget.

> If not, is it
> important to implement the same C++ interfaces on every platform so
> long as the interface from Eve is the same?

Yes.

Blessings,
Foster

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