[interfacekit] [ANN} Prototype 5 released / Status report

A quick post for my fellow teammates to scoop the news anywhere else. :)

I just got a prototype-release-quality #5 out the door which I have 
personally found exciting - it draws a real, working window, complete with 
buttons. No, they don't actually *do* anything yet, but you can click on 
them. There was some serious amounts of research and code added over #4 to 
get all this in place.

Looking a little down the road, I can forsee adding more window functionality 
and ditching the BView/BWindow graphics module for a BDirectWindow module 
complete with double buffering. System color support and preference support 
are also nearby. Once the general window stuff is pretty much set, BView 
functionality will start showing up. Hopefully, I should also have the API 
for the graphics module and decorators more stable for P6 so that those of us 
itching to make some nice window decorators can do so.

--DW

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