The port to Windows .NET of the scrolledwindow and scrolledview widgets took more effort than I had originally thought that it would (the patch file for the changes was well over 1000 lines when completed).
posted by Syd @ 9:01 PM
Trixul - Cross-Platform Development in C++
Read along as I chronicle my efforts to develop the Trixul Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit. Trixul is a simple cross-platform toolkit that will be featured in my next book on the subject of cross-platform development in C++. Content posted to this blog is Copyright 2004 - 2006 Syd Logan, All Rights Reserved, and may not be duplicated or republished without the written permission of the author.
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- Name: Syd
- Location: Southern California, United States
Author of Developing Cross-Platform Applications in C++, Addison-Wesley, Developing Imaging Applications with XIElib, Prentice Hall, and Gtk+ Programming in C, Prentice Hall. Former member of the technical staff at Netscape, where I was responsible for the XUL-based Instant Messenger in Netscape 6 through 7. Also spent a few years at VMware, working on guest components team in the Virtual Machine Group. Syd is a member of the Encinitas Guitar Orchestra,
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
The port to Windows .NET of the scrolledwindow and scrolledview widgets took more effort than I had originally thought that it would (the patch file for the changes was well over 1000 lines when completed).
2 Comments:
Trixul is a cool idea. is there any possibility that there will or could be a qt port?
Yes, Qt is a very real possibility. The reason for this is the clean separation between platform implementations. Currently, I support Cocoa on MacOS X, Gtk+ on Linux, and .NET forms on Windows. Qt would simply be another factory implementation that could be instantiated on all three platforms (due to its cross-platform nature).
There might be some difficulties due to how Qt is built, but that could be isolated to the platform Makefile I suspect).
Not only can you port to Qt (or Motif, or wxWidgets for that matter), Trixul should be very portable to other platforms that provide a native toolkit similar to those already supported, and support C++. I am compiler-agnostic for the most-part, Mac and Linux are built with GCC, while Windows is built using Visual Studio .NET (from the command line).
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