Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Re: Windows UI

[Mike Frisch <mfrisch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:54:54PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:51:08PM -0500, Mike Frisch wrote:
> > IMHO, the fact that AbiWord already supports multiple UIs (GTK, Windows,
> > BeOS, and GTK via XDarwin) proves that it can work.
> 
> ...although I don't know where the separation between the
> toolkit-independent and toolkit-dependent parts is, i.e. I don't know
> what UI stuff you can change in one place and have it work everywhere
> and what stuff you have to change in multiple places.

With a properly crafted, thin abstraction layer over the UI, the number
of changes required in multiple places should be kept to a mininum.

Obviously I have no real experience in this area and as such, I could be
blowing hot air.

Mike.