Re: [Ongui-dev] OnGui development launched

[Mike D. <mi...@cs...>]

Hi Robin,

Downloaded and unzipped. I'll spend some time this weekend browsing
through it and hopefully I'll have some questions for you early next
week. Should be fun!

-Mike


Robin Rowe said:
> Mike,
>
> Hi. I have created the developers mailing list and added us to it.
>
> Zipped up my old GFX API source as a development prototype and placed
> in our
> developers attic on SF site.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93808
>
> Please download that, browse through the code for ideas, and start
> asking
> questions on the list.
>
> Look at the Window and Dialog test code examples for starters. GFX was
> not
> cleaned up or documented for other users. Will want to talk through
> it.
>
>> Why OnGui? Just curious.
>
> Because the event handlers use "On" in the method names, sort of like
> MFC
> does. Other than that, OnGui isn't much like MFC. ;-) Coincidentally,
> ongui
> may mean claw or nail in some languages.
>
> Found that libgfx was already taken by another GUI library and wanted
> to
> come up with a name quickly. Considered your suggestions, but had
> problems
> with each of them. Of your proposed names EGO (Easy Graphic Objects)
> was the
> best and the worst. I could just imagine what some would say if I led
> a
> project named that!
>
> Thanks for prompting me to get this off the ground. Appreciate your
> help!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin
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