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- Path: sparky!uunet!dove!gilligan
- From: gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
- Subject: Re: Seeking portable GUI API
- Keywords: API,XVT,portable,GUI
- Message-ID: <5563@dove.nist.gov>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:31:24 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.170308.11044@sol.asl.hitachi.com>
- Sender: news@dove.nist.gov
- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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- While I have no experience with the various toolkits for developing
- cross-platform programs, it seems to me that the biggest problem would
- be not the different API's to the GUI, but the fact that while DOS is
- singletasking and OS/2, UNIX, etc. are preemptively multitasking,
- Windows requires programs to jump through many hoops so they can
- release control to the OS in order not to freeze the systm when they
- go into long loops. If I want to rewrite a DOS, OS/2, or UNIX program
- to run under Windows, I would have to go sticking PeekMessage calls
- into all nontrivial loops, right?
-
- ---Jon
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- Disclaimer --- The government probably disagrees with my opinions.
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