[plug] Agenda VR3 handheld

[Simon Scott]

	I think the whole point of the Agena is to remain non-proprietary,
in software at least.

	Yeh, X seems to be overkill to me, but I think they wanted to retain
compatibility to a certain degree, making porting etc easier... and as I
said, X isnt that bad by itself, its the giu toolkits and window managers
that kill.... So X and FLTK is quite thin. 

	You could map the FB I spose, but wouldnt that exclude X from
running at the same time? Something has to own the FB?

	It seems xlib is more than fast enough... and since it is embedded
in the device, you dont need extra libs etc. The game Aliens has a 35K
executable, so you can fit quite a few natty little progs in flash.



	From:	Mike Holland <myk at golden.wattle.id.au> on 04-04-2001 11:19
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] Agenda VR3 handheld

	On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Simon Scott wrote:

	> 	Nah, graffiti is proprietary... they are using Xscribble i
think

	Doesnt stop them licensing it, if the price is OK.

	> 	Actually, someone has already hack VNCViewer to work.....

	That runs its own protocol. There is a VNCViewer for palm too. Not
that
	its much use.

	> 	Thanks.... have you done any xlib??? From what I could make
from the
	> source to 'Aliens', the API basically allows you to open a window
and treat
	> it like a canvas, where you copy raw graphics data around..... 

	No, but I looked at it long ago. Much better to use a nice OO
toolkit.
	I guess you might want raw xlib for speed-optimisation in games, but
cant
	you just map the framebuffer?

	   Why X? X gives network transparency, but on a PDA that is better
	done by something less bandwidth intensive, like HTML/WML.
	   X lets you have multiple apps with their own window - but at
160x240!!?
	   But I guess thats all been argued to death on the Agenda mail
lists.

	-- 
	Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
	                          --==--
	    I had no shoes and I pitied myself.  Then I met a man who had no
	    feet, so I took his shoes.            -- Dave Barry




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