From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no>
Subject: Re: [OT] Best way to isolate a GUI? (The final concensous?)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:32:52 GMT
Date: 2003-02-25T13:32:52+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vptpg1o58.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b3fobn$cio$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net
"Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> writes:
<snip>
> In my little imaginary world of dreaming up a way to separate the GUI from
> the app, I tend to like a messaging scheme because it is loosely coupled and
> flexible enough that it could probably be mated to a number of GUIs and GUI
> builders as well as staying language neutral. I think if one went another
That's one of the reasons the interface to the X window system server is actually
defined as a network protocol.
> route - that involving callbacks - one would likely lose the flexibility and
> find it difficult to make it line up with more than one GUI at a time. While
> callbacks are going to have certain advantages (forcing a certain amount of
> command/response protocol and returning results to the GUI) I think that
> careful design of a messaging system might be able to live without those
> advantages or synthesize them in some other way. So you pays your money and
> you takes your pick. :-)
--
Ole-Hj. Kristensen
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2003-02-16 10:19 [OT] Best way to isolate a GUI? Jano
2003-02-16 14:47 ` Ed Falis
2003-02-16 14:49 ` Victor Porton
2003-02-17 20:52 ` Jano
2003-02-16 16:36 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-02-17 8:44 ` Preben Randhol
2003-02-17 16:22 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-02-17 17:30 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-02-17 17:54 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-17 19:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-02-18 3:15 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-18 16:14 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-02-18 18:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-02-18 21:12 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-18 23:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-02-19 18:28 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-20 19:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-02-20 21:34 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-20 7:50 ` Dale Stanbrough
2003-02-19 12:49 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-19 18:35 ` [OT] Best way to isolate a GUI? (The final concensous?) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-20 12:40 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-20 13:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-02-20 22:01 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-21 1:25 ` tmoran
2003-02-21 2:08 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-21 17:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-02-22 14:10 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-21 18:02 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-22 14:49 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-22 22:50 ` tmoran
2003-02-23 5:18 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-02-24 18:06 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-25 1:20 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-02-25 17:57 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-25 12:41 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-25 13:32 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen [this message]
2003-02-25 17:33 ` [OT] Best way to isolate a GUI? (The final fronteer?) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-20 8:26 ` [OT] Best way to isolate a GUI? tmoran
2003-02-20 12:51 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-20 18:47 ` tmoran
2003-02-17 19:31 ` tmoran
2003-02-18 1:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-02-18 3:39 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-18 23:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-02-18 13:29 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-18 18:01 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-02-19 13:06 ` Marin David Condic
2003-02-16 17:25 ` achrist
2003-02-16 21:24 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2003-02-16 21:52 ` David Marceau
2003-02-17 0:57 ` Re; " tmoran
2003-02-17 7:25 ` Jano
2003-02-17 14:09 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2003-02-17 21:12 ` Jano
2003-02-18 7:24 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2003-02-18 13:08 ` Marin David Condic
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