[openbeos] wxWidgets, was: Re: Pe in SVN ?

  • From: Finn Bastiansen <beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:48:17 +0100

Hi Francois,

hm, that's interesting, I didn't know about it :-)
I will have to ask the other guys. Or maybe some other person has taken 
over the project.

Thanks for noticing,
Finn


On 2008-02-14 at 02:03:54 [+0100], you wrote:
> > Hi Francois,
> > 
> > 
> > > I even found a start of wxWidgets port on berlios... just as I was
> > > starting to make my own. some things are really well hidden.
> > 
> > Yeah, but we never really started (in terms of coding) due to a lack
> > of
> >  time (=>real life issues) ...
> > 
> 
> The screenshot on the website seemed to tell otherwise,
> http://developer.berlios.de/dbimage.php?id=3664
> at least the minimum classes are stubbed out.
> It should be quite usable now if you use wxUniversal for not-yet-
> implemented classes.
> 
> I'm not fond of BeIDE projects OTH, doesn't scale and needs hacking
> when moving to someone else's box (it never picks headers correctly) or
> BONE (libs).
> 
> I don't have much time either but I'll give it a look.
> It might need an update though, 2.8.7 is out.
> 
> Unlike most other toolkits around wx tries to use native controls as
> much as possible, a port would allow getting nice apps that looks quite
> native.
> 
> François.

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