Date:	Sat, 7 Mar 1998 23:57:54 -0600 (CST)
From:	Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To:	Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: New GUI?
In-Reply-To:	<35011748.68BB@cam.org>
Message-ID:	<Pine.GSO.3.96.980307235700.10554B-100000@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
MIME-Version:	1.0

Yes, put on the web. 
(is it just C or C++?)

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Vic wrote:

> Hey, it seems everybody is doing one these days, and so am I :)
> Now, seriously, I got interested in the "who wants win95 look for
> allegro" thread and I started my own 3D looking windoze like GUI.
> Is there any interest in a new one?
> The reason I did this is, well, I didn't like the others.
> Some of them look nice (like Degui for example) but they are based on
> Allegro. I don't like the allegro GUI cause
> 1: the buttons don't act like bloody buttons! (I mean, they act like a
> checkbox only look different!)
> 2: you are trapped inside the dialog.(meaning you say do_dialog() and
> that is it) The dialog draws directy on screen. If you want to add your
> own thing on the screen you have to add a dialog procedure. etc.
> So I coded for a couple of hours and I got the bases of a 3D GUI, where
> buttons are buttons, and you just tell it to "update" itself on a
> bitmap, and it will check for mouse and keyboard input, and draw itself.
> The thing is based on a message system, it calls the object's MouseOver,
> MouseDown etc.
> Should I put the sources on the Web?
> -- 
> --> http://www.cam.org/~tudor <--
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