[XForms] [patch] API pseudo changes

Angus Leeming angus.leeming at btopenworld.com
Tue May 18 08:06:26 EDT 2004


On Tuesday 18 May 2004 1:00 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Angus> The patch seems completely uncontroversial to me. Any
> Angus> objections, or should I just shove it in?
>
> It looks like the right thing to do, but I do not understand why
> things have been changed previously. There has to be a reason,
> don't you think?

I'm not so sure. The old closed-source development was so fragmented, 
with different versions for different architectures, that it may well 
be that the stuff I grabbed as

ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/Attic/linux/elf/bxform-089-glibc2.1.tgz

was not the basis for the open source release.

> Angus> While I'm at it, several functions that were declared using
> Angus> 'unsigned int' are now declared using 'unsigned'. Eg:
>
> Angus> -Window fl_get_mouse(FL_Coord *, FL_Coord *, unsigned int
> *); Angus> +Window fl_get_mouse(FL_Coord *, FL_Coord *, unsigned
> *);
>
> Angus> Again, they're equivalent, but I fail to see why the change
> was Angus> a good one. Shall I change them back?
>
> I think so.

Ok, dokey. I'll have a go.
Angus



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