[paragui-users] Some questions - developer feedback please :)

[Teunis Peters]

on 3D and/or video contexts:
   What parameters are needed?
   How should a 3D system interact with ParaGUI event-wise?
   What information would such a system need?
   How SHOULD paragui interact within another visual system...
       example: paragui window inside 3D app
       or even paragui surface on 3d texture :)

actually as I've been playing with multimedia contexts (movie playing :) as
well, above applies to that too....

Also, am thinking of some additional components for ParaGUI:

Layout manager:
       - to manage and rearrange widget/window layouts....
       bits to manage:
            background attribs (eg: solid|transparent)
            window location and size
            "dirty rectangle" list (send refresh events -here-)
            manging -when- objects are repainted
       - there could be one for every drawing context...

Texture manager:
        - (note: this doesn't apply outside of the opengl tree :)
        goal: to manage texture memory onboard videocard and manage when
              textures are updated or removed from videomemory (LRU algo :)

These two components (both of which -would- be core changes) I'm likely to
add anyways.  They simplify some issues and add some neat possibilities
later...  I'm just looking for feedback on how they should work / what
they should handle / where they should be added.  Neither of these would
be appropriate for an add-on library.

Also - on threading:
        - How should one build a widget that would contain a 'main thread'
          of it's own? :)  I think it'd be pretty trivial except that
          I'm not sure what developers here think of threading...

Thank you for any/all helpful feedback and answers in advance :)
I have and am building these components so....
G'day, eh? :)
        - Teunis