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comparison readme @ 1011:ea15fee48da8
Updates to the readme file for the upcoming 2.0 release.
author | bsmith@81767d24-ef19-dc11-ae90-00e081727c95 |
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date | Sun, 15 May 2011 20:17:22 +0000 |
parents | 230686a7eba9 |
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1 This is an beta release of dynamic windows version 1.0.0. | 1 This is a stable release of Dynamic Windows version 2.0.0. |
2 | 2 |
3 The current Dynamic Windows source base is relatively stable on | 3 The current Dynamic Windows source base is stable on |
4 OS/2, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. When the beta | 4 OS/2, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. The Mac (Cocoa) |
5 feature set is stable I will release a final. | 5 version appears stable but has not undergone harsh testing. |
6 | 6 |
7 Known problems: | 7 Known problems: |
8 | 8 |
9 Boxes don't adhere to ratios on Unix. | 9 Boxes don't adhere to ratios on Unix. |
10 | 10 |
18 in a box then signals may get misdirected to the wrong control. | 18 in a box then signals may get misdirected to the wrong control. |
19 | 19 |
20 On OS/2 and Windows MLE controls scrolled position may get | 20 On OS/2 and Windows MLE controls scrolled position may get |
21 corrupted when resizing. | 21 corrupted when resizing. |
22 | 22 |
23 On Unix the window manager border is not a constant value so | 23 On Unix (GTK) the window manager border is not a constant value |
24 environment variables DW_BORDER_WIDTH and DW_BORDER_HEIGHT | 24 so environment variables DW_BORDER_WIDTH and DW_BORDER_HEIGHT |
25 are used for proper positioning. | 25 are used for proper positioning. |
26 | |
27 On Mac if performing Dynamic Windows operations on secondary | |
28 threads which do not terminate, it may be required to call | |
29 a Mac specific DW function _dw_pool_drain() at the end of the | |
30 thread's loop to prevent memory leaks. | |
26 | 31 |
27 Future features: | 32 Future features: |
28 | 33 |
29 Implementing a full set of controls. Most controls common to OS/2, Windows and | 34 OS/2 is currently missing the Calendar and HTML widgets because |
30 GTK have been implemented. Although not all the functionality of the native | 35 the system does not support them by default. Looking into writing |
31 controls have been integrated into Dynamic Windows. | 36 custom ones or importing functionality from available libraries. |
32 | 37 |
33 Documentation, I have all the functions relatively well documented in the | 38 Dynamic Windows Documentation is available at: |
34 source code but a developer's manual and online API reference will need to | |
35 be written. | |
36 | 39 |
37 If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to email me at | 40 http://dbsoft.org/help_functions.php |
38 dbsoft@technologist.com | 41 |
42 If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to email me at: | |
43 | |
44 brian@dbsoft.org | |
39 | 45 |
40 Thanks! | 46 Thanks! |
41 | 47 |
42 Brian Smith | 48 Brian Smith |