2018/03/16

10:21

Okay two things. The compatibility manager can just instead be like only for Canvas instead of the entire framebuffer thing. Additionally instead of having a ClientManager and everything going through it, I believe instead there can just be a class in javax.microedition.lcdui or similar if that could be initialized (will have to think about that) that instead of having all of the display widgets route to secondary classes in my package and instead just use single objects for everything instead. So every widget on the local end would be initialized with a ServiceCaller where that widget does the stuff. I mean one could access the ServiceCaller though and I do not believe I can do anything to stop that. But that would simplify cases where there are local and remote widgets. Well there would just be remote widgets that are referenced locally by indexes and such, rather than having 3 instances of classes for widget management. But it really does not matter if the ServiceCaller is exposed anyway because someone can just directly perform service calls using the system call interface so it is a moot point.

10:50

Okay so Display and TabbedPane will be __Container__ which will, well sort of since the problem would be inheritence here. But they will be containers which can store Displayables. At least with a more direct approach I can have it where I do not need to juggle extra classes and objects client side. So this should be easier to implement now.

10:53

So do I want to keep __DrawSpace__? I think something that might help is having an extra container class which can be initialized with some information. I suppose it will need to be a ground up thing again.

15:22

I think when it comes to fonts, I am only going to have a built-in font but I could have adapters to system fonts potentially despite it being a bit complex. Actually, I think what I would need is system based font rendering. Like have the system able to render fonts and such. That would be a bit non-determinstic and less controlled though. Basically a system call would have to be made for rendering fonts. At least when it comes to system calls and such I will need to manage how glyphs are loaded and such. I could load them all client side and have duplicates in the process when they are all shared, that would be easier to do.

20:00

Okay this is very important, but I need an API which allows me to connect to UNIX sockets and such. So I will need to exploit GCF for this at least for a X11 connection to work properly.