18 Nov
2003
18 Nov
'03
3:24 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:50:37 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
if we avoid the goal of having the host have some
control over the
plugin GUI window, then this isn't necessary, and the design i
implemented last night will work without any special support from X or
toolkits. it does require a small library with what steve has termed
"toolkit specific hacks" - its not so much that as enumeration of
supported toolkits. however, the goal of the host having some control
over the plugin GUI window seems rather desirable.
If the host has no control over the UI then I'm not quite sure what the
point is. It saves on processes, but the're pretty cheap on UNIX anyway.
We need some kind of IPC (ITC?) between the host and UI anyway, to handle
serialisation of control changes.
- Steve