Re: XForms: Towards xforms 1.1

From: jac@casurgica.com
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 03:37:14 EDT

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    # To subscribers of the xforms list from jac@casurgica.com :

    > I realise that there are still one or two bugs pending (I have a patch
    > from Rouben for the missing fl_lookup_RGBcolor() but am not sure which
    > file it should reside in...) but think that we are pretty close to
    > having something that can be released as xforms 1.1.

    I don't know about that. There's still these:

    1) The event backing up thing with fl_check_forms().
    2) The tabfolder horizontal position bug.
    3) The laggy form resize bug.
    4) The secret input caret bug.
    5) The secret input focus bug.

    And probably more. And I'd help out and write some patches but I'm not
    going to have any time to do that, at least not until after the middle of
    August. But I honestly don't think that it's ready for a minor version
    increment...

    Also, about changing library names and stuff. Angus seems to know what's
    up with the backward compatibility thing. It is *very* important that
    xforms remains backwards compatible. At my company, we have literally
    hundreds and hundreds of thousands of lines of code and about 80-90
    libraries and applications that all rely on the headers and libs being the
    way they are now, and about 95% of our stuff uses the forms GL extensions.
    We'd like to stay up to date with xforms because of all the bugs that are
    being squashed out, but we can't do that if something silly happens like a
    header name being changed and the old one removed, or having to deal with
    libraries being renamed.

    Jason Cipriani

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