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Resources for Rolling Your Own Windowing System?

Posted by Cliff on from the be-your-own-GUI dept.

WalterGR asks: "There are plenty of resources available for writing operating systems, e.g. Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems, the Dinosaur Book, and countless web sites. For those of us who aren't interested in low-level issues, and prefer focusing on human-computer interaction, what resources are available for designing windowing systems (a la X Window)? Issues like the object hierarchy, event management, modularity, redefining behavior at runtime (e.g. for skins) etc. Any suggestions?"

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  1. OWL, MFC, K, etc. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Take a look at the object windowing libraries put out by several vendors. It should give you a good footing on developing your own object hierarchy.

    As for not getting into 'low-level' stuff, you're SOL if you want to build an X-like system.

  2. No really, I'm serious... by curunir · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft's Research is pretty good...

    These guys spend a lot of effort answering the kind of questions you're asking.

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