Re: createing a client with a core and cross-platform gui
- From: Dave <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:28:26 -0800
You could just incapsulate hWnd's within a class. Or, you could
subclass MFC controls. You really have lots of options.
On 1/28/11, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Classes work for wx, but if I'm using windows API, I'd have issues with
> all the function pointers.
> On 1/28/2011 4:38 PM, Dave wrote:
>> If you're rolling your own cross platform UI code, then you could
>> consider having abstract classes representing UI elements; subclass
>> for each platform as appropriate.
>>
>> Or, as you suggested, instead of subclassing, simply include the
>> implementation of each class on a per platform basis but keeping the
>> declaration uniform. You could even have a "cross platform
>> implementation" file that is included in every platform build, but
>> have additional platform specific "extensions" to those classes.
>>
>> It really depends on your needs.
>>
>> On 1/28/11, Littlefield, Tyler<tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hello, I know that there are cross-platform libraries, I just didn't
>>> want to mess with them to much, unless I needed to, because as you say
>>> there is a big problem with trying to make everything work with one
>>> library.
>>> On 1/28/2011 3:29 PM, qubit wrote:
>>>> Hey there Ty -- perhaps you know this already, but you may find that an
>>>> awful lot of the core code is influenced by the choice of GUI, and so
>>>> you
>>>> may end up doing a lot of development in your 3 GUI's each time
>>>> something
>>>> new is added.
>>>> You could get a cross platform GUI library like swt in java or wx
>>>> widgets
>>>> to
>>>> reduce the amount of work, but you sacrifice something when you try to
>>>> ram
>>>> the same type of GUI on all platforms. There was a thread on that on
>>>> the
>>>> brailleblaster list, which is using java and SWT.
>>>> Are you still working on your aspen mud framework? Is that what you are
>>>> asking about?
>>>> I am going back to get a microsoft live id...grumble, brumble.
>>>> Cheers.
>>>> --le
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Littlefield, Tyler"<tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To:<programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:33 PM
>>>> Subject: createing a client with a core and cross-platform gui
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> I have a quick question: I am developing a client-server app, and I want
>>>> the client to run on windows, Linux and Mac. So here was y idea: I will
>>>> develop the core in c++, then just use whatever library I want to per OS
>>>> and compile it for that. So I'll have different "gui" folders that will
>>>> hold the code for each separate gui, and then when I compile on anything
>>>> I'll just include that into the project I'm compiling. Is this a viable
>>>> solution? Are there other ways to do what I want?
>>>>
>>>
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>>> Thanks,
>>> Ty
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