Re: [ros-dev] FreeWin95

[Martin Fuchs]

2005/10/9, michael(a)fritscher.net <michael(a)fritscher.net>et>:
>   Little problem:
>
>  Our GUI is very slow even without skinning atm, I don't want to know how
>  slow would it be with skinning...
>  So I think we must make the GUI very much faster before we can think of
>  skinning etc. 
I think the main reason for the slowness are missing optimizations.
For example the DeferWindows() API is currently not implemented, but
replaced by calls to the synchronous SetWindowPos() API. I don't know
to current kernel/WIN32 code good enough, but expect there are many
other examples like this. What's also missing are accelerated screen
drivers. Things like a generic S3 accelerating driver...

>   There are a lot of alternate Shells around, first try
> these before making
>  a complete new ;) 
Correct. If you want to make a completely other (better) GUI, I would
recommend to take that of those programs, which is closest to that you
are seeking, and build what you need additional on top of this.

Regards,

    Martin