[SDL] Needfull things

[John R. Hall]

Joseph Carter wrote:
> Please try to keep your lines under 80 chars please.  Some of us are using
> terminals to read mail still, and we like it that way.  =)

What, you don't have your terminal mapped across a wall of monitors? 
What's wrong with you? :)

> - Cross-platform error/message box
>   People have requested this, and I know how to do it for Windows at
>   least.  No clue for MacOS X or BeOS.  Probably a simple dialog in Xlib
>   would be suitable for X11, and I have no idea what to do with Linux
>   framebuffers, SVGALib, or other strangeness.  The code for any platform
>   save X11 with XLib is probably trivial, but there are few who have the
>   ability to write the equivalent function for more than one or two of the
>   desired platforms.  The idea was to do what I could and put it online
>   and ask people to write the function for any platform they know how to
>   code under and send submit it for inclusion.

You could probably get away with using Xt, since it's a standard 
component of X11. That should make the code much cleaner, and shouldn't 
raise any support issues.

-John

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John R. Hall, KG4RUO
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