Subject: Re: An Idea I need to throw out
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 20:44:40 CDT
At 01:27 PM 4/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I first of all must say that I enjoy using AbiWord and am amazed at how it
is
>advancing in such a short time.
>
>Now I have an idea and I am just curious to see what you think about it. I
>was wondering if anyone has thought about doing a port of AbiWord for the
>PalmOS.
This has not been considered, nor is it likely to ever happen. AbiWord is
build on top of a number of different windowing libraries. Each of these
libraries, such as GTK or win32, provide utilities such as focus control,
mouse event handling, and so forth. There is not an equivalent type of
wincoming system available on the PalmOS. This means many features would
which currently take some things for granted would have to be built from
the ground up.
The real question is what kind of libraries the PalmOS will support. For
example, if the PalmOS ever supported GTK, we would be good to go. Of
course, this is extremely unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future.
Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist
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