From kfm-devel  Sun Jan 12 04:56:49 2003
From: Alan Gutierrez <ajglist () izzy ! net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:56:49 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Win32 Port of Safari
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Andreas Dieling wrote:

> > My recolletion of is MFC is that it mirrors the GDI almost exactly, except
> > that it wraps the GDI handles in C++ classes. An MFC function is just a GDI
> > function with one less argument. It doesn't buy much.
> > 
> > The only reason I thought about toolkits is because Kwq is right on top of
> > NextStep. I was jelous. I doesn't make sense though for reasons that are as
> > obvious to me now (after two days with the code) as they are to all of you.
> > 
> 
> sorry my fault, when i suggested mfc i meant it to be used for the whole 
> gui of a possible browser. But you asked how to draw the controls in 
> khtml:p For them GDI is obviously the easiest solution.

My fault for speaking too soon. I started off on this sub-thread about
toolkits without explaining my intentions. In part because I didn't understand
them myself. Asking about application frameworks would make it seem like I was
all excited about writing a browser shell. Wouldn't I be a sick puppy then?

Thank you for your help.

Alan Gutierrez