[ros-kernel] what we really need thread and Network Card Question

[Steven E. <Ste...@kn...>]

>Writing that front end would be a huge amount of work that would
>probably be better spent on the GDI itself.

I agree.

I didnt mean to make it sound like I thought more work was going in to other
stuff and not the GDI. What I was trying to say was once the GDI is in
place, attracting developers for a massive project like explorer would be
easy. I do belive that the project is distributed very well. All I was
getting at was that if we focus more on the GDI now then we will have more
developers for writing a explorer replacement.

I'm still learning C so I dunno how much help I can be with the GDI. Most of
the stuff I've been playing with is on the Application testing side. 
I've ported over most of the test apps from wine and winelib and am working
on building replacment commdlg and comctl dlls.

I'm also going to try my hand at coding some winsock stuff in a few weeks. A
buddy just made a hardware donation of 5 network cards that may be ne2000
compatible for ReactOS. If anyone needs a ne2k isa card for development let
me know and I'll send you one.

Steven


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Filby
To: ros...@re...
Sent: 10/2/01 8:51 AM
Subject: [ros-kernel] Re:  RE: What we really need - Not explorer



--- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fd...@ya...> wrote:
> I have a suggestion.
> 
> There are numerous libraries floating around out there to support
> VGA/SVGA graphics.
> 
> Why not write a GDI "front end" to one of those (GPL/LGPL)
> libraries
> for now? It would not be very efficient, but it would be a start. 
> Then
> you could gradually move more and more of the library code into the
> GDI
> calls to increase the efficiency, until eventually the system would
> be
> fairly optimal.
> 
> --- Michael Rich <alp...@al...> wrote:
> > > Trying to build a explorer replacement or even really think
> > > about it right now is kinda stupid when i cant even run
> winhello
> > yet.
> > > Steven Edwards
> > 
> > I agree with Steven on this issue.  Too much focus is put on the
> > "pretty"
> > features, probably mainly because folks who work on those parts
> can
> 
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