Re: createing a client with a core and cross-platform gui
- From: Dave <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:38:40 -0800
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?
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
> Ty
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