What is Photon?
Photon is QSSL’s newest GUI product offering. It combines extremely fast GUI response, with a very small footprint. To aid in development of Photon programs, QSSL provides an application builder program PhAB that simplifies construction of Photon programs, as well as enabling fast prototyping. Be warned, The Photon model and API is not very straightforward or familiar. The API is however very X-like in philosophy. Expect a significant learning curve, even if using the PhAB. PhAB removes a lot of the drudgery of building a GUI application, but it does not remove the complexity of the interface. In addition, an understanding of Photon’s design model can be valuable. 17) Why is Photon so fast? Because Photons are particles of light.|-). Oh I guess that’s not it, but it would take a long time to tell, and I’m not really all that sure why. Like most QNX applications it uses message passing, but that’s only part of the story. 18) What is Photon’s theoretical design? At the bottom level Photo
Photon is QSSL’s newest GUI product offering. It combines extremely fast GUI response, with a very small footprint. To aid in development of Photon programs, QSSL provides an application builder program PhAB that simplifies construction of Photon programs, as well as enabling fast prototyping. Be warned, The Photon model and API is not very straightforward or familiar. The API is however very X-like in philosophy. Expect a significant learning curve, even if using the PhAB. PhAB removes a lot of the drudgery of building a GUI application, but it does not remove the complexity of the interface. In addition, an understanding of Photon’s design model can be valuable.
