20 Mar
2005
20 Mar
'05
7:30 p.m.
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I don't know what visual styles do have to do with API compatibility.
It's rather a EndUSER-Pixel-compatiblity. Since win uses Twips and has
SystemMetrics and so on.
Do you care about 2-3 few apps that have to do with styling?
I'd suggest a totly different version number. As Royce sayd: Ros should
be identifyable as ros and not emulating win-version numbering. But to
keep nosi version-checking apps happy we should choose a version number> 5.1
Since we are Ros 0.2.6 we can report 20.6.00?
This a) shows that this is ROS. b) The version number of ROS (0.2...)
and c) is greater to 'do as if' all apis are supported
Michael Trausch wrote:
| Royce Mitchell III wrote:
|
|>>All these discussions are really rather moot. We will never *be* any
|>>particular version of Windows. We might as well report the latest,
|>>giving the user the option to change it for finicky programs.
|>>
|>>As I mentioned previously, we ought to default to reporting a "future"
|>>version of Windows, just to keep nosy version-checking apps happy.
|>>
|
|
| But don't report more then what you're capable of dealing of dealing
| with the function calls of, at the same time. For example, ROS
| doesn't support XP themes/skinning of the OS yet, so I wouldn't set
| it to claim it... some applications act differently if you're on
| Windows XP because of that. I would default to Win2k if you've got
| that implemented, and then in the future give the user a choice to
| change the version for the system as a whole if they want, say if
| they are running all really old apps or something.
|
| Because it will never be an exact Windows, the settings *should* be
| changeable anyway, and allow the users to change it, because that
| would allow someone to continue to use "outdated/Not supported"
| software on a new more secure environment. I'd like if that type of
| thing were right in the control panel, personally, but I couldn't
| implement something like that if I tried. I'm just not yet a
| programmer.
|
| - Mike
|
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