Re: Mozilla Windows CE Development

I have not used WTL myself, but have heard good reviews about it. As 
Doug had mentioned, it might make a lot of sense to move everything 
towards XUL so that XUL and the XUL runtime can also gain from the 
improvements.
--Gangadhar
Mateusz Łoskot wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> First, I'd like to say thank you to Minimo's devteam!
> A project like Minimo has been awaiting for long time.
> 
> Doug Turner napisał(a):
> 
>> [...]
>> For the minimo application, we have two "front ends".  These are 
>> native front ends -- linux uses GTK (and I have gotten a QT version 
>> going, but was sidetracked), and windows uses WinCE APIs.
>> [...]
> 
> 
> Simple question: If the source code of mozilla (and minimo) is modular
> and - as I understand - UI part is separated from the logic why not to 
> use one of Microsoft's UI framework wrapping Win32 API and simplifying 
> its usage? I have one such in mind. It is called Windows Template 
> Library wich is published on Common Public License
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/).
> 
> It provides ATL-based templatized framework wrapping Win32 API to build 
> robust and small binaries.
> It is a very very thin layer just above the API.
> I use it programming applications for desktop Windows OSs
> and for Window CE based OSs like Pocket PC, Smartphone etc.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Greets