From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 741 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2004 19:50:21 -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 723 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2004 19:50:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ob2.cmich.edu) (141.209.20.21) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 Jul 2004 19:50:19 -0000 Received: from egate1.central.cmich.local ([141.209.15.85]) by ob2.cmich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6KJkBP8010469; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:46:11 -0400 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:49:57 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146567000B; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:50:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:36:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: Hans Ronne Cc: Jim Kingdon , Subject: Re: Weird fuel behavior In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jul 2004 19:49:57.0304 (UTC) FILETIME=[BC15C380:01C46E92] X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Spam-Score: -0.9 () X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00785.txt.bz2 On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Hans Ronne wrote: > >In SDL, I assume we'd get to write our own window code (or use one of > >the many libraries out there which are designed to go on top of SDL). > >I don't know whether that is better or worse than having (possibly > >buggy or quirky) floating windows provided for us. > > SDL doesn't support multiple windows at all. So I guess one would have to > implement something like a row of unit info panes in order to examin > several units at once. If this is true, then it is somewhat of a blow against SDL. However, I don't really intend to work on the "pure" SDL interface so much as an [appropriately ifdeffed] SDL/GUI toolkit (possibly GTK) hybrid, __sometime after 7.5 is released. Eric