On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> Wolfgang Schwotzer wrote:
> >
> > After having a closer look on the current status of plex86 I want to start
> > another discussion on it's GUI.
> >
> > I think that in comparison to vmware a propper GUI for configuration
> > purposes would be very important for a wide spread usage of plex86.
>
> This would be a good discussion to get going again. As you mention,
> we will need some kind of widget set for SDL to make a good
> interface without reinventing widgets.
>
> Reactions and input welcome.
What king of gui functions are we talking about here? Are we talking about
buttons like "Disable sound" or "toggle fullscreen", "enable ne2k
emulation" etc? If so, how will this gui communicate with the various
plugins? Will we have (or do we have) some global or per vm structure to
contain these settings and some common mechanism for querying & updating
it from the plugins?
If a widget set based on SDL is used for this GUI, will it be part of the
same plugin that does, say, the vga & vesa emulation? That would not be
nice for anyone who wanted to replace the vesa plugin with something else
(eg matrox emulation) but retain the gui functions without duplcating
code. If it were a seperate plugin though, how would it communicate with
the other plugins which also use SDL?
Bye,
Martin.
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