On 10/18/06, Bob Cowdery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:20 -0400, Philip Covington wrote: > > On 10/18/06, James Courtier-Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Eric wrote on 10/10/06 > > > > > > > > "We ARE NOT planning on using the same tools for the future versions of > > > > the software. Rather, we will use FREE TOOLS. We have not settled 100% > > > > on what those free tools will be, but right Visual Studio 2005 Express > > > > versions are looking to be the best pick for the windows GUI. Obviously > > > > we'd like to have a cross platform GUI, but have yet to find a set of > > > > libraries/tools that rival the ease-of-use and efficiency of Visual > > > > Studio's tools." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Which tools were looked at? > > > It would be nice if the PowerSDR gui could be built in eclipse. > > > One could then look at running the PowerSDR gui on Linux. > > > I believe the PowerSDR gui is written in C#. > > > Linux can run C# programs in something called "mono". > > > dttsp already works in Linux. What else is needed to get PowerSDR gui > > > working in both Windows and Linux? > > > > > > James > > > > System.Windows.Forms in Mono is still pretty much crap. It would be > > better to use GTK# on both Windows and Linux in Mono. If you don't > > want to stay in C#, then of course there is wxWindows, Qt, etc... > > etc... though there may be development still going on in wx.NET. > > > I've settled for using GTK+ on both Windows and Linux. Glade is a really > nice GUI builder and the only one I've found where it's effortless to > create resizable everythings and the only builder where I have been able > to cut and paste whole chunks of interface between containers and > windows without it throwing up it's hands in horror. It's also very > cross platform. I compile it with Express on Windows without trouble. > > 73 de Bob >
I have had the same experience with GTK+. And I agree that Glade is very nice. Sounds like the plan is the Console will stay in C# though, using WinForms and .NET 2. Still if the GUI is separated out, someone can write the GUI in whatever language and with whatever toolkit they want. Phil N8VB _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
