@Fred: Make the Gadget lib as Open Source...

IceSoft · Post by **IceSoft** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:36 am

@Fred,
It make sense to declare the Gadget lib as Open source.

Why:
Lot of missing feature to the orginal Micrososft gadgets.
The PB Community can help to improve the Gadget lib.
Maybe you start with a part of the Gadget lib as Open Source?
If you get positiv results you can make more Gadget as Open Source.
If not...you can close it again.

Or you make it Open Source for a part of PB users (Like the Alpha testing phases)

Make a try...please!
And you can work on more important stuffs for the next PB versions.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:12 am

I would think this is impossible to do as the testing and integration of an open source lib would take so long and the team would have no definate way of controlling the additions to the lib.

Who knows how many conflicts and bugs would/could suddenly appear.

IceSoft · Post by **IceSoft** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:19 am

Derek wrote:I would think this is impossible to do as the testing and integration of an open source lib would take so long and the team would have no definate way of controlling the additions to the lib.

Who knows how many conflicts and bugs would/could suddenly appear.

Look on some open source programs. You will see...it works!

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:37 am

It would be nice to think it could, after all the more gadgets you have to work with the more likely you will find the one you actually want for a particular job.

inc. · Post by **inc.** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:57 am

Do you got a link where someone could find some useful Infos or a tutorial how to do Gadget stuff using the Win API directly?

Cause if yes its just a thing of an userlib creation like "GadgetEx" or something similair.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:33 am

IceSoft wrote:
Derek wrote:I would think this is impossible to do as the testing and integration of an open source lib would take so long and the team would have no definate way of controlling the additions to the lib.

Who knows how many conflicts and bugs would/could suddenly appear.
Look on some open source programs. You will see...it works!

I can't confirm.

Lot of missing feature to the orginal Micrososft gadgets.

If features that are added are Windows only there's no point in adding them, just use Windows API yourself.

IceSoft · Post by **IceSoft** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:19 am

inc. wrote:Cause if yes its just a thing of an userlib creation like "GadgetEx" or something similair.

Or use Subsystem.

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:24 am

All missing features a os depending. You can easy use CreateGadget from
PBOSL to create your own Gadget.

Post by **freak** » Wed May 09, 2007 3:55 pm

lol

"... please Mr. Gates, make Vista OpenSource so i can fix a bug when i find it..."

IceSoft · Post by **IceSoft** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:32 pm

freak wrote:lol

"... please Mr. Gates, make Vista OpenSource so i can fix a bug when i find it..."

So true... so true.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:24 pm

To get to the source you need to swim against the byte stream
(Freely after Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)