Re: [Plplot-devel] Using Window's raw API for shapes and text

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2015-05-13 20:56-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:

>> On May 13, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> wrote:
[...] But clearly the wingcc name is
>> now a misnomer.  Of course, you don't want to break backwards
>> compatibility on this name now unless there is a really good reason,
>> but one possible good reason is if someone could think up a really
>> compelling name for this device driver that we all immediately like.
>
> How about mswin.

I don't particularly like that name because it emphasizes Microsoft.
That company clearly is in complete charge of the Windows platform,
but there are at least open enough about the specifications of that
platform that it is possible for others (such as the Wine developers)
to implement a Windows platform as well.  For example, the wingcc
driver works fine on the Wine version of Windows according to my
tests.

Before I posed my question, I was thinking of just "win", but I think
that is so bland it is almost meaningless.  Another possibility
is iwin (where the i stands for interactive), but again too bland.

Just free-associating here, but how about something like winwidget
to follow (roughly) the naming scheme for both our wxwidgets
and our qtwidget devices?

Alan
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