GDI+ calendar component

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David Sobey

g'day

I'm making a calendar component, ie month view, week view etc, starting
basically from scratch drawing lines and strings etc with GDI+. Now after
checking out the mozilla calendar sunbird, i get the suspicion that they
somehow cheat and use html/css for their component. Am I right, and if so,
how and why do they do it? Let windows be windows and let web be web i say
:)

cheers
dave
 
David said:
g'day

I'm making a calendar component, ie month view, week view etc, starting
basically from scratch drawing lines and strings etc with GDI+. Now after
checking out the mozilla calendar sunbird, i get the suspicion that they
somehow cheat and use html/css for their component. Am I right, and if so,
how and why do they do it? Let windows be windows and let web be web i say
Click to expand...

Parts of the UI of Mozilla & friends is written in XUL:

http://www.xulplanet.com/

MS own XAML (to be released with Longhorn or whatever animal)
reinvents the same wheel.

bye
Rob
 
David said:
Am I right, and if so, how and why do they do it?
Click to expand...

well... since Mozilla Sunbird is open source, you could always download
the source code and find out ;)
 
that seems like an processor-expensive idea. It seems like #including an
entire web browser in every app that uses it. which is a bit of an overkill
for a calendar. but an interesting idea that i might consider nevertheless.

thanks for the help.
cheers
dave
 
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