totoro;174629 Wrote: > Trivially easy? No. Easier than the alternatives? yes. > > I'm actually a pretty dyed-in-the wool c++ bigot, so I don't give the > recommendation to use java lightly (I could chew your ear off about > what a complete joke java generics are, but that's awfully OT). But > maintaining a gui in a cross platform environment written in c/c++ > sounds pretty unpleasant to me.
But there's an alternative-- the browser. Though widely derided by both the knowledgeable and not-so-knowledgeable on this forum, I really think Slimserver's Perl, Template::Toolkit, and skin API makes building a gui in a cross-platform environment pretty manageable. AJAX is the bridge that makes the browser a viable UI for this type of app. I'm also a big fan of those that are spinning things their own direction-- Moose, Softsqueeze, SlimRemote, etc. That's why an open source model makes for such a rich set of alternatives. #!/ben I'm doing my best to be the anti-complainer today. I'm not sure why, but today's posts were probably the most contentious I've ever seen. There are some people spending an enormous amount of effort typing out passive aggressive (and in some cases, massive aggressive) insults back and forth endlessly. Don't you realize there are better ways to spend your time? In fact, I'm going to take that advice and pour myself a wee dram of Highland Park and call it a day. Cheers! -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32104 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
