> Kuba Ober wrote :
>> I'm contemplating porting XCircuit to C++ using Qt toolkit, using Javascript 
>> for scripting. This would immediately make it available on all major 
>> platforms, and make 
>> I have it running on X11 on OS X, configured to use tcl+tk from MacPorts, 
>> compiled to use X11 as follows:
>> 
> 
> So I take that it already runs on Mac but you're not satisfied.
> Why don't you go Java to make it work on any platforms?

Qt works on most any platform too, and it works on Nokia mobile devices as 
well. Heck, a Qt application can be easily made to run on a device that has not 
much more besides a framebuffer, a keyboard and a mouse -- that's what Qt 
Embedded is for.

Anyway, I'm not interested in doing it with Java. I have experience with Qt. I 
believe that once the code will be ported to Qt, it will be way easier to hack 
on it, and the possible developer base will grow. As it is, the code certainly 
works, but it's plain old C and it shows. There are heaping bunches of stuff 
that should be machine generated.

All I care for is some handholding as to the structure of the code. My starting 
point is to get the code moved directly into an XCircuit widget that exposes 
all the functionality listed in xcwrap.c -- this would be enough to get it 
running with tcl-qt or qtcl, while preserving full functionality of existing 
tcl scripts.

Cheers, Kuba
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