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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, so we could perhaps extend this to cover the other common areas where
we use the UI toolkit for non-UI things (mostly OS interaction, I guess),
although at some point it becomes about more than just tools, so the name
might be confusing.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On 04/12/17 19:23, Jon Evans wrote:
> > It's probably a good idea to implement a "toolkit abstraction layer" if
> > we ever go down this road, so that we wouldn't have to do it *again* if
> > we ever switch again.
>
> This is the very purpose of the internal event system (TOOL_EVENT,
> TOOL_ACTION, TOOL_DISPATCHER) - be able to run interactive tools without
> dependencies on the UI toolkit.
>
> Tom
>