RE: XGGI Success!!

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Congratulations, John.  Marvelous work.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of John
> Fortin
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 9:58 PM
> To: $Bill Luebkert; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: XGGI Success!!
>
>
>
>
> "$Bill Luebkert" wrote:
> >
> > John Fortin wrote:
> > >
> > > All,
> > >         I am happy to announce that I have a working
> X-Server using XGGI
> > > running under Win98.
> > >
> > >         * Mouse Tracking, LButton, RButton work
> > >         * KB works
> > >
> > >         I have Successfully run xterm, twm, xclock,
> oclock, xmag, x11perf,
> > > aixterm, xterm (from aix), ddd (from aix)
> > >
> > >
> > >         Now it is a matter of fine tuning.
> > >
> > >         The current version runs in a window, not
> full screen.  I did this for
> > > debugging purposes, but I think I like it.
> > >
> > >         Things to do:
> > >
> > >         - make version for NT
> >
> > NT can wait.  :)
> >
> > >         - clean up mouse support, add 3-button support
> >
> > That would be a nice.
> >
> > >         - more fonts needed
> >
> > That can wait.  :)
> >
> > >         - make window moveable
> >
> > That would be nice too.
> >
> > >         - optimize the code better
> >
> > That can wait too.  :)
> >
> > When do you plan on making it available for download?
>
> 	Probably next week.  I need to package it.  Just
> understand that this
> is an alpha version, and bugs are going to be there.
>
> >
> > Since I'm not familiar with XGGI, are we talking about
> a Cygwin compiled version here?
> > or MingW? or native? or ??
>
> The win32 version of XGGI is a cygwin executable for now.
>  Suhaib is
> working on a mingw version of the X11 libs.  When that happens, we
> should be able to create a native ( non-cygwin ) XGGI Server.
>
> The libGGI library will also be made available...
>
> John
>
>
>
> Checkout the XGGI Homepage.  It will explain it better than I can
>
> 	http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mackan/ggi/xggi/
>