Re: [XBoard-devel] Re: XBoard stuff

[Tim Mann]

We had a discussion of wxWindows vs. GTK+ vs. Qt/KDE a while back (most
of it while the mailing lists were broken, so it's not archived), and we
came out with a preference for GTK+.  Our working plan is to rewrite the
X front end in GTK+ to make it easier to fill in missing features and to
get a better look.  If the Windows port of GTK+ turns out to be stable
and usable, we could consider switching WinBoard to use the same code;
but more likely we'd still leave the Windows and X front ends as
separate code.  The existing Windows front end is in fairly good shape
and is not too hard to extend.

I'll forward a few messages to the list with most of the earlier
discussion so you can see more of the rationale.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:56:37 +0200, "A. Alper ATICI" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> The challenge of integrating autotool scripts into the single codebase
> does not bring immediate benefits to the project I believe. So, let's
> put it off for now. OTOH, wxWindows implies C++ and an OO Framework,
> which means a significant shift from what is there already. Before
> dreaming any further, I'd like to assure the feasibility of it
> resourcewise and wrt project's future plans.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:48:50AM -0600, Dan Jenkins wrote:
> > 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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