<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Pity about the wxWindows fork. It's really become a very nice and rich GUI toolkit. Scott Robby Findler wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:932b2f1f0910270803h677b4968mddb6c033ab8207fd@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Not to be a killjoy, but the devil is in the details indeed. The wxWindows thing you mention (is a pretty infrequent) faq; I think that there are more careful in the list archives. The short version: no we can't take newer versions of wxWindows; we branched a long long time ago and integrating the changes is difficult (nearly impossible) for various technical reasons. As far as the other aspect of your comments, we did try implementing our own browser for rendering the documentation, but it was a lot of work and we could never keep up with people's complaints (and their comparison to their actual browsers). So we stopped doing that and life got much better. I seriously doubt we'd even consider going back. Of course (and this applies equally well to your other comments), please feel free to do any of that stuff and contribute it to the project. Our only source of funding is research funding (and, of course, the products of that is research), so if you had a few millions (or tens of millions) you wanted to throw at the problem, that would also help. Robby On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Scott McLoughlin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:scott@adrenaline.com"><scott@adrenaline.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I may be mistaken, but I believe that wxWindows (used by PLT, yes?) already has both a very nice "rich text" control and a credible HTML rendering control, I'd presume more than good enough to render text, fonts, some color and the occasional JPG image. Hmmm, I think I even have an older version of the wxWindows demo program somewhere on my disk, so I might get around to checking today. IIRC, th wxWindows framework made it very easy to put nearly anything inside of a tab control. But again, the the devils in the details, I understand. Scott Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: 2009/10/27 Scott McLoughlin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:scott@adrenaline.com"><scott@adrenaline.com></a>: 3) Spawning the browser to view the docs is fine, but really, just as easy these days is providing an HTML tab for viewing the hyperlinked documentation. The only complication here is, that PLT is a cross platform project, so it is a requirement that the browser component works on Windows, OS X and Linux. The last time we looked for a library to use, we couldn't find anything approriate, so it was decided to spawn a standard browser instead. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>