Re: [Flpda-disc] flpda strategy

[Cam]

Peeter

Hi I hope you have sorted out the mail list. I have seen lots of testing 
messages from you. How big is the membership right now? Maybe the 
interested parties should introduce themselves.

> 1. make it compatible with nonpatched fltk-1.1.4
>         -- floating point operations where needed.
>         => will require modifications into all applications, maybe.

I don't mind being compatible with 1.1.4 but I think adding in support 
for floating point ops to the apps would be a mistake, since they were 
removed and the integer based alternatives were written for a good 
reason. We can still be highly compatible by writing wrapper functions 
where necessary, supporting the de-facto API that the applications use 
with a thin wrapper that calls float routines where necessary. 
Eventually we should be able to support the features with integer based 
solutions.

> 2. import flek pda features.

I have a working version where I have done most of this already. The 
affected classes include

-rw-r--r--    1 cxm      cxm          1055 Sep  5 10:49 export.h
-rw-r--r--    1 cxm      cxm          9032 Sep  5 10:55 FDate.H
-rw-r--r--    1 cxm      cxm          2387 Sep  5 10:56 FBase.H
-rw-r--r--    1 cxm      cxm          4820 Sep  6 16:26 Fl_App_Window.H
-rw-r--r--    1 cxm      cxm          3394 Sep  6 16:27 Fl_Dockable_Window.H
-rw-r--r--    1 cxm      cxm           524 Sep  6 22:10 
Fl_Page_UpDown_Button.H
-rw-r--r--    1 cxm      cxm          6181 Sep  7 01:14 Fl_Calendar.H
-rw-rw-r--    1 cxm      cxm          1459 Sep  7 02:43 Fl_Toolbar.H
-rw-rw-r--    1 cxm      cxm          2716 Sep  8 23:18 Fl_Icon_Button.H
-rw-r--r--    1 cxm      cxm          9345 Sep  8 23:36 Widget_Factory.h

Mostly they are from flek but there are some I have added (Toolbar and 
Icon_Button)

> 3. include PDA i18n stuff
>         -- setting LANG env variable.
>         -- flpda widgets will have translations.
>         -- some changes into time widgets, the am/pm stuff needs thinking

Good.

> What are Your interests, maybe we have some of them the same.

I want to make changes to flpda where necessary to improve the usability 
of the current applications so that they are of commercial quality. This 
means adding features and improving performance. I also want to improve 
the design of the system where possible. For example I have improved the 
toolbar so it is implemented with fewer widgets, behaves better and is 
easier to code for. No doubt other parts of the code could be improved too.

I'm keen to get other developers interested so I would like to take 
advice on how to do that. Should I publish a tarball of work in 
progress? Should I make vrdebs? Should I just update CVS? Or make a new 
rootdisk?

-Cam