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- Submitted-by: ahby@uinj.UI.ORG (Shane McCarron)
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- Peter da Silva writes:
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- > > are portable to a number of platforms (the P1224 approach is to
- > > have a layered API which would work on MS-DOS, OSF/Motif, OPEN LOOK,
- > > and Presentation Manager).
- >
- > How about MacOS/Finder, GEM, and Intuition?
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- I believe that MacOS/Finder was included. GEM and Intuition were not,
- as far as I know. Could someone else from 1201 address this?
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- > Does your API require the application to manage its own refresh events,
- > or is that stuff hidden far enough in the library that windowing systems
- > that handle that sort of thing through backing store won't lose out?
-
- The whole point of a LaFI API is that the policies of the underlying
- GUI are hidden from the application developer. That should all sort
- os the autonomic behaviors that windowing systems have (just as the
- human body breathes and pumps blood without conscious effort).
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 55
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