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| author | Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> | 2013-03-07 08:12:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> | 2013-03-07 10:15:57 +0200 |
| commit | 54d3aa2785d0fd9e8b61a27fcb451b919935bd22 (patch) | |
| tree | 5dfbb3e9685b94cbcbd8185d06cf4f239b8a1bd8 /vcl/README | |
| parent | 7298b7c6866457dff111638cdce9207feb2580fa (diff) | |
Improve vcl/README
Change-Id: I9031ab98f263bcc32b747c85e1715b80c7059ae9
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diff --git a/vcl/README b/vcl/README index effde519db17..a868f2a8e37a 100644 --- a/vcl/README +++ b/vcl/README @@ -1,38 +1,47 @@ Visual Components Library is responsible for the widgets (windowing, buttons, controls, file-pickers etc.) operating system abstraction, including basic rendering (e.g. the output device). -Welcome to the Visual Class Libraries (vcl) code - source/ + the main cross-platform chunk of source + inc/ - + cross-platform abstraction headers / definition + + cross-platform abstraction headers vcl/ - + external headers + + public headers ("public" to the rest of LibreOffice, that is) + generic/ - + shared helper code for backends, - actually built into vcl + + shared helper code for *some* of the backends, actually built into vcl. + headless/ + a backend renderer that draws to bitmaps + +android/ + + Android backend (work in progress, does work to some extent) + aqua/ - + OS/X backend + + OS X backend + ios/ - + skeleton Android backend + + iOS backend (work in progres, does not work, needs re-think + and re-write) + win/ - + windows backend + + Windows backend + unx/ - + unix specific platform backend code and its' sub-platforms + + X11 backend and its sub-platforms + plugadapt/ + pluggable framework to select correct unx backend gtk/ - + gtk2 support + + GTK2 support gtk3/ - + gtk3.2+ support + + GTK3.2+ support kde/ - + kde3 support + + KDE3 support kde4/ - + kde4 support + + KDE4 support generic/ - + raw X support + + raw X11 support How the platform abstraction works @@ -48,6 +57,7 @@ How the platform abstraction works Timers, the SolarMutexe, Drag&Drop and other objects, as well as the primary event loop wrapper. -Note: references to "SV" in the code are in relation to StarView, which is a -portable C++ class library for GUIs, with very old roots, that was developed -by StarDivision. +Note: references to "SV" in the code mean StarView, which was a +portable C++ class library for GUIs, with very old roots, that was +developed by StarDivision. Nowadays it is not used by anything except +LibreOffice (and OpenOffice). |