From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15903 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2004 20:16:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15862 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2004 20:16:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) (66.163.170.83) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 15 Nov 2004 20:16:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (sampln@sbcglobal.net@67.123.175.195 with plain) by smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2004 20:16:15 -0000 Subject: Re: SDL/ParaGUI Development Progress From: Lincoln Peters To: Eric McDonald Cc: Xconq list In-Reply-To: <4197DCB3.7090707@phy.cmich.edu> References: <4197DCB3.7090707@phy.cmich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1100549795.15874.8843.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:06:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01413.txt.bz2 On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 14:31, Eric McDonald wrote: > Those wishing to make their own themes might do > well to take a look at these files. The XML files in the 'paragui-tests' > directory describe screen layouts. ParaGUI can read these layouts to > automatically set up screens. Of course, the screens can also be > generated line-by-line from code. (Technical note: ParaGUI uses an Expat > implementation to parse the XML files.) Does this mean that ParaGUI would be able to use different themes depending on which game is being used? I seem to remember something like that being discussed earlier, but until now it seemed like it would be a lot of work to implement. In fact, it might even get easier to implement if a system of game categorization like the one I described yesterday was implemented, as it sounds like you could have a different default theme for each genre, while still allowing a game designer to optionally declare a specific theme for a particular game! Of course, I think we'll all agree that it's too early to worry about such things. --- Lincoln Peters Old age is always fifteen years old than I am. -- B. Baruch