From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 22 Apr 2002 00:38:38 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <000501c1e8b4$abd058c0$947ba8c0@TSUNAMI> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019403742 30099 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 15:42:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: , , , Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zJTp-0007pM-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:42:21 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zJU6-0001J9-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:42:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zJTe-00042Z-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zJR1-0003xA-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16zJQG-0002ux-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:38:40 +0900 Original-To: "Andy Piper" In-Reply-To: <000501c1e8b4$abd058c0$947ba8c0@TSUNAMI> Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.1.3 on Linux/i686) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2939 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2939 >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper writes: >> The feature of using toolkit widgets seems very powerful. >> Could you find out the names of all the people who wrote the >> code which implements this? If they are willing to sign >> papers, maybe we could use the code in Emacs. Andy> I think the copyright for this particular feature is almost Andy> exclusively owned by me. However, the code all relies on Andy> support that Ben wrote - so you would need to get papers Andy> from both Ben and me. Are you sure? There has long been support for subwindows (but it's been broken since 19.1something). Are you sure you used none of that, or did you write that in a previous incarnation? Also, anything that Ben wrote is almost certainly polluted with Sun copyrights. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.