Re: Porting from zAPP (Inmark/Rogue Wave) to V
Angelo Schneider wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a graphical application, a CAD System with a lot of dialogs
> and a mouse tool like interface.
>
> As zAPP ceased from Rogue Waves product line (and is to expencive
> on unix platforms) I consider porting to a differnt "portable"
> GUI lib.
>
zApp came along after V was first designed, so I really don't
know too much about its internals.
> Are there any experiances in porting from zAPP to V?
>
> I considered also wxWindoes but I do not like their MFC like
> event handling approach.
> On the other hand, they are able to compile and use windows resource
> description files (~.rc).
> How about that with V?
Because of the internal structue of V, the equivalent of .rc files
are not needed unless you want to include an icon in the .exe. Rather
than trying to support different description formats on X and Win,
V just defines layouts internally.
>
> Any hints are very appreciated! Also to other portable GUI libs!
> Further: are there any experiances with WINE (linux) or other binary
> porting tools?
>
> Regards,
> Angelo
>
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