13 Oct
2008
13 Oct
'08
12:30 p.m.
Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel wrote:
cq Xlib vs. the various Widget toolboxes
My GUI needs were very limited : This is the main reason I could get
away not using a toolkit.
check on ftp://jdreesen.dyndns.org/ftp for some screenshots of the
emulator.
Codesize for the GUI section is around 100 lines of C, time to
implemement probably less than would be needed to master a widget set.
And yes, I liked the idea of trying to limit myself to Xlib.
Well, doing it for the intellectual challenge has its own merits.
Anyhow the interesting part should be the Lilith
emulation itself, and
writing documentation and preparing diskimages will be enough work.
But, yes, if I ever port this to C++ I will go for WxWidgets.
Try to keep the emulation and presentation separate. That way when the
time comes to port it to other enviroments it will be easier to update
when wxWidgets changes, or if you want to use a different toolkit.
Gordon