Re: a new project 'quran'

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:57:03 +0300
  "Mohammed Yousif" <mhdyousif gmx 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'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

I'm not too familiar with all this stuff, but can't something along
the lines of XDrawLine, XDrawRectangle and friends be used ?  I've
seen a number of utf-8 supporting applications go this route.

I'll read-up on this stuff once I get a bit of time -- thanks for
the link.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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