Re: Porting DDD to other widget-sets (gtkmm?)

Looking through the document, i get the impression that you are not trying
to restructure the code to separate the gui from application logic, but just
to replace all the motif calls by calls to the shim, is that correct?

Regards,
mark


On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Peter Wainwright <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have been looking at the possibility of a gtkmm port for 18 months,
> and am putting together some code in "branches/gddd".  The solution I
> eventually came up with was an object-oriented GUI interface, modelled
> on a small subset of gtkmm, which would act as a shim between DDD itself
> and the underlying widget sets.  Hopefully such a thing would allow
> Motif, GTK and perhaps even Qt ports to exist.
>
> However, as Andrew has pointed out, the GUI calls are scattered
> throughout DDD so that tracking them down and redirecting them through
> the new abstract interface has been time-consuming and is far from
> finished.  Particularly because my first attempt was a bunch of dirty
> macro hacks which I have now abandoned.
>
> A short introduction to this work can be found on this site:
>
>  http://www.ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk/ddd-gtk.pdf
>
> (also available as a Docbook XML file in the "docs" subdirectory of the
> source).  I intend to add to this, in particular there should be some
> information on the modifications I made to the MMDesc type in order to
> generate the new-style widgets.
>
> Peter Wainwright
>
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