Re: wxwidgets terminal follows its pace

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 28 June 2005 07:33 pm, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > Am I missing the point?
>
> Partly so, by my understanding.  A large part of the idea behind having
> a wxwidgets output driver is that it will work not just on X11.

I see. I was confused by Timoth=E9e's screen shots, which showed the
plot in an X-window.  So you're saying that wxwidgets layers on top
of X if the system supports X, and layers on top of something else
on systems that don't support X?

> The way I look at it, maybe its strongest promise is that it may allow
> us to put the old MS Windows driver to rest.

At the cost of accepting C++.  But I suppose that's a net win :-)

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742