Re: a new project 'quran'

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 23:00, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> I have a suggestion -- are you looking or considering creating (or porting)
> this program to non-Qt3 type of environments.  What I'm getting at is, it
> would be wonderful if such a program would exist and function properly
> without dependence on Qt3 and/or Pango/Gtk.  This might be a new area for
> you (and us :-), but it might be a good place to start a discussion along
> those lines regarding how to go about doing something like that (I know it
> might be considered reinventing the wheel and that it might not sit well
> with many, but if you are looking to reach a wider audience and possible
> learn something new - this might be cool to look into :-).  The X draw
> widgets are all over the place (ie. to tell us how to map windows and how
> to move them and what sort of notifications need to be sent to the window
> managers, etc by looking at source code in
> xterm/mlterm/vim/and-a-million-other-programs).
>
> Just a thought & again welcome back.
>
>  - Nadim
I'm 100% with you but the problem is that most apps (vim..etc) use 
motif/lesstif , I'm sure most ppl have that toolkit because it's used widely 
for a lot of unix apps.
Motif/Lesstif already has RTL support (we don't need fribidi ;) but 
unfortunately it doesn't have utf-8 support (vim 'draws' the strings on a 
xmDrawingAreaWidgetClass rather than using some text widget) 
see : http://www.lesstif.org/FAQ.html

and this left us to only two choice , the first is using plugins for various 
tks as M.Sammer noted , the second is statically linking it with the 
libraries we will use for it.
 
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Mohammed Yousif
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