[aplusdev] Win port revisited (Cross Platform GUI)

[Stefano Lanzavecchia]

> Here are some possibilities for cross platform GUI for A+. 
> 1. Re-implement MSTK on top of an existing cross platform GUI tool kit

> like wxWindows, FLTK, or GTK+.  This looks like a lot of work. 

As far as I know the A+ GUI is optimised to be able to handle large
quantities of data, in particular tabular data in its grid object. I
think that any implementation which requires movement of data (TCL/TK,
XUL, XML-RPC) would destroy performance. In fact this seems to be the
major drawback of Apter's Java GUI extensions to K.

To maintain the same level of performance with large variables the only
way is for the GUI extensions to be able to access directly the internal
representation of the variables.

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