[Openicc] libcmwidgetcore (working title) [was: List Scope]

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 30.01.08, 10:42 +0100 schrieb Cyrille Berger:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > > Am 29.01.08, 13:56 -0800 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> > The stuff walking from ICC Examin in to Oyranos is very pragmatically
> > selected, like profile analysis and creation. Unfortunedly the requested
> > OpenGL widget is a bit close interwoven with the remainder of the
> > application. It deploys a FLTK derived class design. I will put an eye on
> > sorting out dependencies and C++ specifics.
> 
> I don't think anyone using Qt, would mind on depending on C++ ;) If it's based 
> on OpenGL, then the rendering part should be "simple" to embedd in different 
> toolkit, Qt (and most likely GTK) offers a GL widget, then providing a 
> function to call for each OpenGL redisplay call.

Is the Gtk OpenGL widget a C++ thing?

> > > Gtk widgets that were rapped around that functionality.  This would allow
> > > the iccexamin developers to focus on the internals while at the same time
> > > making sure that the UI work related to this was handled by people that
> > > specialize in each particular widget set (IE. Qt, Gtk, Fltk...).   Longer
> > > term I would like to replace or augment the ProfileChecker in LProf with
> > > iccexamine functionality.  So this is on my list of things to do.  If
> > > this were included in a common Qt CM widget set then this would perhaps
> > > happen sooner.
> >
> > Beside a gamut hull display, would'nt it make sense to keep the
> > remainder in one core project? I am not shure how much work it would be to
> > wrap a application like ICC Examin into several toolkit cloats.
> Well that's clearly how I see it :
> oyranos => library for CM settings
> libcmwidgetcore => toolkit independent base for creating CM widgets
> libcmqt => Qt Widgets
> libcmgtk => Gtk Widgets
> libcm... => ... Widgets

That scheme looks good.
As the last years candidate for that GSoC project could not start, because 
of the limited number of accepted projects, there is quite some work to 
do.

A first API draft would help with the split.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
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