[SmartWin-General] Status of SmartWin...

[Thomas H. <pol...@gm...>]

Howdy everybody, feel free to reply to this mail to discuss SmartWin
with me or other people on this list!
Me and Sergey have just released the 0.995 version which is a "waiting
for 1.0 version" of the library!
It's got tons of updates and bugfixes I just send this mail to tell
everybody how we're going onwards from here.

Sergey is working on a Signal/Slot implementation to exchange with the
current message dispatching system, it's built upon Loki's functors
and will (theoretically) be 100% transparent with todays Event
Handling system, nothing will change in client code, the only things
you will notice is increased flexibility!
When the sigslot system is in place (sigslot meaning Signals/Slots)
users of SmartWin will be able to easily create their own event
(signals) and event handlers for those events (slots) which can then
be fired from an anywhere, it will also (probably) be possible to have
several slots (event handlers) for the same signal (event) meaning
that you're not confined to have only one event handler anymore for
the same event!

I have just tonight checked in a working implementation of a threading
system with support for things like forking (create a new thread),
critical sections (lock objects or parts of code from being accessed
by other threads), wait for object(s) (wait until thread(s) finishes
it's work), suspend thread (pause a working thread), resume thread
(the opposite of suspend) and lots of other goodies!
There is now downloadable documentation (as of version 0.995) in chm
format and the website have been updated to get a more "pro" look!
So as you probably understand I am as enthusiastic now regarding
SmartWin as I never have been before!


Thomas Hansen

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