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- From: "Kevin O'Donovan" <abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Gem List
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 11:27:59 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <23940728213132/0006795560PK2EM@mcimail.com> from "Daniel J. Hollis" at Jul 28, 94 04:31:00 pm
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- Daniel J. Hollis said:
- > I don't think you have ANY idea of what you're talking about. I
- > am in no way "misusing" AES. How could I *hint* at misusing a
- > standard when I'm using all of the standard calls the same way
- > that they are documented in the documentation, and in BOOKS?
- >
- I'm simply saying that its very difficult to make the AES lose keystrokes
- if you're doing things properly. I did a few tests last night in which I
- had the computer go away and do some heavy processing between key responses
- and I was unable to make it miss a key. The only time I did have similar
- problems was way back when I was half way through upgrading an application
- from Tos to Gem, and I mixed Gemdos console input with AES input - it worked
- Okay if I could be certain they never overlapped, but if they did characters
- would go missing (note that I'm not advocating the above - I needed to release
- an upgrade quickly and this was intended purely as a stopgap measure.
-
- > one thing, you said that you were writing another program that included the
- > source from XView, which means that you didn't write it, so this book does
- > not document YOUR program.
- We're talking about libraries aren't we? I'm writing a library that provides
- the Xview API (though the widgets it generates look like Motif, but WTF) along
- with its functionallity. I've also released a few programs, the last 3 (soon
- to become 4) of which use the library. The book doesn't document these
- programs, but because I've implemented the library described in the book it
- does document my library. In any case, my remark was a tongue in cheek one,
- meant to illustrate the ridiculousness of these "trying to go one better
- than the person before" type conversations. Guess I failed.
-
- > No one would buy any more Atari books anyway.
- >
- People would probably buy them, but getting someone to publish them, and
- someone else to stock them would be a bit more difficult.
-
- > I never said these were not absolutes. If we were to put
- > everything on the earth that everyone else liked and wanted to see
- > in a library, we would have a GUI the size of a gigabyte! We JUST
- > can't include every idea that everyone will come up with in one
- > single library. There's just no way.
- >From my experience of a variety of windowing systems and window managers there
- are not that many of these sort of options. And remember, the size of the
- library itself doesn't matter - a program will only be that big if it
- uses everything in the library, or if the library was put together badly.
-
- Kev
-
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- Kevin O'Donovan
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