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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by hamdouni on Saturday March 26, 2016 @05:12AM (#11364992)
is the gui backend coded width direct windows system calls or there is a layer ? I'm thinking about the work to be done for other systems (linux, os x, ...)
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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by ncx on Saturday March 26, 2016 @09:06AM (#11365516)
As rebolek said, yes, there is a layer. The blog states that `Flexible backend support that can be mapped to virtually any kind of UI library.` which means that the abstractions used are good enough to support different OS. There are plans to support View (gui) on each platform (desktop/mobile) that Red supports. But it's going to take some time. Lots of other features to be added as well :D .
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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by rebolek on Saturday March 26, 2016 @05:31AM (#11365023)
There is internal layer (View) that calls Windows directly. Work has already started on support of other GUI backends (OS X and Android currently).
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