Re: Seeking portable GUI API

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From: Jonathan M. Gilligan
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:31

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While I have no experience with the various toolkits for developing
cross-platform programs, it seems to me that the biggest problem would
be not the different API's to the GUI, but the fact that while DOS is
singletasking and OS/2, UNIX, etc. are preemptively multitasking,
Windows requires programs to jump through many hoops so they can
release control to the OS in order not to freeze the systm when they
go into long loops. If I want to rewrite a DOS, OS/2, or UNIX program
to run under Windows, I would have to go sticking PeekMessage calls
into all nontrivial loops, right?

---Jon
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Disclaimer --- The government probably disagrees with my opinions.

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