>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Duncan> Do not hold your breath, since I need to get a PhD, but it
Duncan> occurs to me that GUI independence would be accelerated by
Duncan> having some common cases as re-usable widgets or something
Duncan> spiritually similar. How many boxes have a message and yes, no
Duncan> and cancel buttons? Would it not make sense to have a gettext
Duncan> aware version of such a box---it seems this could convert a
Duncan> lot of boxen quite quickly.
Duncan> I guess the first step would be writing a XForms version of
Duncan> the idea above and using it instead of custom boxes
Duncan> everywhere. I will look at this some time modulo dealing with
Duncan> OLE archives on C++ implementations without overidable
Duncan> sys_read, sys_write and sys_seek functions (the documentation
Duncan> incidates these are specific to my iostream implementation).
Duncan> Does the standard have anything equivilent? (I can not RTFS
Duncan> myself).
Isn't this idea similar to what we have in lyx_gui_misc.[Ch]? Of
course functions like WriteAlert() will be ported to other toolkits.
JMarc
