[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] re FLTK

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 6/26/05, Chris Warren-Smith <cwarrensmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Yeah, but if you have a not-so-light gtk running already, why on earth
> >would you want to run FLTK with it? Unless FLTK has some killer-app of
> >course.
> >>  Calling gtk routines from a fltk app would only increase the exe size if
> >>  they were statically linked.
> >Exe size has nothing to do with it. If you have gtk already loaded,
> >the "light" part of FTLK becomes insignificant.
> >But, to make any app integrate with the environment, the places to
> >look at are libosso and task navigator (AFAIK).
> Hi Kalle,
> I guess FLTK apps are just an example of a category of apps
> that could almost run correctly on the system. These are some
> other examples:
> http://piipiip.net/~veli/maemo/
> Without an application icon in the task navigator area there doesn't
> appear to be a way to switch back to the app once another app
> has been launched. My use-case is - play "the dig" in between
> reading the news :)
> I think maemo should have some way of catering for this category
> of application rather than requiring a complete port.

What's wrong with the method described in

http://maemo.org/platform/docs/tutorials/Maemo_tutorial.html#integration

?

I just pointed out that running FLTK along Gtk sound pretty silly,
unless it has some killer-app that has functionality nobody has
implemented with Gtk (which I doubt, but will gladly admit being worng
at).

AND assumed that people read the tutorials before asking questions on
the list, silly me ;)

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi