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Re: [Patch] setup.exe - no skip/keep option buggyness
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- Subject: Re: [Patch] setup.exe - no skip/keep option buggyness
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:44:42 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:23:14PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>> Here's a really radical idea -- how about throwing out all of the
>windows
>> specific stuff and the .rc file and going with something like fltk
>> ( http://www.fltk.org/ ) instead?
>
>I'll consider patches, but have no intention of doing this myself at
>this point.
>
>The .rc editor I've done work on, sitting in the cygwin-apps cvs
>repository (ah, if only I had time) uses fltk IIRC. It's quite nice.
>However...
>
>IMO our problem is our internal object model, not the toolkit. I'd
>rather get things tidied up one by one, and then reevaluate whats left,
>than change toolkits and hope...
I thought it would be sufficiently hard to implement drop down boxes
with the current scheme that possibly a new approach would make sense.
I'll confess that I've never done drop-downs before. Maybe they're
really easy.
cgf