1000 GUI toolkits

Stefan Seefeld seefelds at magellan.umontreal.ca
Thu Mar 2 15:27:12 EST 2000


"Samuel A. Falvo II" wrote:
> 
> In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002251206080.13041-100000 at hercule.perceval.be>,
> Gregoire Welraeds wrote:
> 
> >Quartz, new graphic layer for the next mac GUI (called aqua), will be a
> >mix of pdf and display postscript.
> 
> From what I understand, they'll be using display PDF all the way.
> 
> >Window will be drawned and animated with postcript / pdf.
> 
> Yes.  A window will be *drawn* with PDF.  But where in the PDF format does
> it permit any kind of mouse or keyboard event notifications?  It doesn't.
> 
> Like HTML, PDF is a *file format*; it is not a user interface *subsystem*.
> Note the difference.

Well, PostScript is a programming language which degenerated to a file format.
It was used heavily in the NeWS windowing system. I can easily imagine PDF to
do the same.

Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: seefelds at magellan.umontreal.ca

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