Cocoa front end

Miguel de Icaza miguel at novell.com
Sun Feb 22 06:35:06 UTC 2009


Hello,

> Looking at the code, it appears as though there may be some  
> refactoring required to abstract the UI a bit more before trying to  
> slap an objective-c gui on there (I write C++ almost exclusively  
> nowadays and haven't been in the pure C world for quite some  
> time :D). Does that seem like a reasonable statement to most?

A engine/GUI split was done at one point and we used to have a number  
of front-ends, one for GNOME, and one that used Tk.

The results were not pretty.   The code became a mess, and the GUI  
model vs the terminal model just did not blend well.

It might be much better to start an effort from scratch in that case,  
you will end up with something that is better integrated into the core  
OS than trying to build a UI on top.
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