WndsLib etc. (was: Re: [Emutos-devel] GEM RSC data)

[Standa O. <opi...@se...>]

Hi!

On 22 Jul 2002, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> > Does anybody have something against this effort? Is there any better idea?
> 
> Well, better idea would be to finish any from the 35 other tasks you
> already started :-) (just kidding, but still remember your scary long
> TODO list).

Yes, I would be quite happy to finish some of them too. ;)

> > I'm still thinking about to publish the sources on some CVS.  But some of
> > the framework is still copyrighted (I've reused MyDIALs sources I got from
> > the Author) and some needs to be redesigned. In general IMHO I have quite 
> > a good framework to create a fullfeatured GEM applications capable of 
> > AV-Protocol, GEMScript, DHST, OLGA, TaskBar and other modern standard.
> 
> that would sure be useful to have in public CVS. I tried many libraries
> when I was about to programming in GEM and I never find something that
> would:
> 
> 1) be free

Might be.

> 2) be in English

Yes, it is.

> 3) had an English documentation

Has no documentation, but I may try to draw some design picture of the 
Window handling scheme and scatch the improvements I have in my mind and 
todo lists (the one I've sent was not concerning the other GEM projects 
I'm working on). I can advice you all in anything you want to reach on top 
of it.
 
> > Unfortunately most of the libraries were written by German and later
> also French guys. AFAIK nobody ever provided useful English
> documentation and that was a show stopper for me.

Also this time it was the German library as a base plus completely from 
scratch written window handling.
In many details it is very similar to the EGEM concept. There are 
conditional defines for the protocolls you want to have supported or not 
in your application just like in EGEM project files etc.

> > this working from TOS up to FreeMiNT (any AES). But as I've said it needs 
> > to be redesigned a bit towards the newer thoughts I have about the 
> > component architecture and SLB usage.
> 
> it can be redesigned after it was published...

MyDials are private source only :(
I use the includes everywhere and I had changed the library for my needs 
too. I will try to contact the authors to allow me to publish it.

> > Hopefully I would have our own (JAY Soft's CVS server up) and so I 
> > would be able to grant access to some of 
> 
> you can always go and ask for CVS server in Sourceforge.net or
> Savannah.org or cvshome.org, sh.cvut.cz or anywhere else (e.g.
> sophics.cz :) That shouldn't really stop you from releasing it.

Sure, but I would like to have the CVS up and running private before I 
publish the sources. I have quite long history archives stored to put in 
before. But I don't know if it is usefull. Moreover If I would need to get 
rid of MyDials stuff then it would be really hard.

best regards

STan