Re: [XBoard-devel] Re: XBoard stuff

[Dan Jenkins]

I agree that a single code base would be ideal.  I haven't used wxWindows 
myself so can't comment much on it.  It probably wouldn't be overly 
difficult to have autoconf conditionally include Windows, or Unix-specific 
files based on the OS.  Trying to get it to set up the Makefile for NMAKE 
vs. Cygwin's make vs. whatever it is Borland uses might be a bit more 
challenging, though...  I am still fairly new to the autobuild tools, 
though, so maybe it's not as hard as I suspect.

OpenGL does graphics only.  It's designed to be system agnostic, and 
therefore leaves stuff related to window creation, input, etc. up to the OS. 
 One of the things I would like to do for the OpenGL stuff is to allow you 
to choose from a variety of chess sets and boards, and also provide a script 
that exports models from Blender, so that people that know a bit about 
modelling could conceivably create their own set/board to use.


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From: "A. Alper ATICI" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [XBoard-devel] Re: XBoard stuff
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:26:43 +0200

Hello everyone!

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:26:00AM -0800, Tim Mann wrote:
[...]
> > Next, I thought about trying to move some of the Xaw code for drawing 
the
> > board into a separate file so that the xboard.c file is composed mainly 
of
> > stuff like Window creation and handling of window events, and so that 
it
> > might be easier to try and start defining a common GUI interface 
between
> > OpenGL and any other UIs.
>
> That's good.  If you want, you could also pull out Unix-specific code
> that isn't X related at all into a third file (assuming you find some
> that can be pulled out fairly cleanly).  We'd been talking about that as
> a step toward replacing Xaw with GTK+.
>

How about taking the step toward a genuine single code base, rather than
partial consolidation as it is now?

I bet most of you have heard/known/used wxWindows:
http://www.wxwindows.org

I haven't used/examined it really, but it looks promising for
multiplatform development. I'm planning to invest some of my time in it.
So, what do you think?

OTOH, will OpenGL be good for anything other than 3D board layout?

regards,
A. Alper ATICI

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