Would it be better to use this instead of WTL ?http://www.wxwidgets.org/front.htm wrote:Cross-platform GUI programming in C++
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I have worked a bit with wxWidgets and it is a nice library. But it would be a major change to have DC++ change from WTL to wxWidgets probably requiring rewritning much of the GUI code. And as wxWidgets can be used for so much more than just GUI (it has socket classes, string classes, and so on..) there would also be the question about how much of DC++ should use wxWidgets.Pothead wrote:Would it be better to use this instead of WTL ?http://www.wxwidgets.org/front.htm wrote:Cross-platform GUI programming in C++
While wxWidgets has flaws too, and I will avoid suggesting any specific toolkit, WTL's flaw is perhaps more important. It has proven problematic to locate a free (either libre or gratis) development environment supporting WTL, because it relies on ATL... This is suboptimal for an open-source program, and means that for many people, developing it may not be free even if using it is, partly undermining its license's philosophy.
Granted, unless someone undertakes this conversion, it's not going to happen anyway. I suspect the work of some of the Linux DC++ people could be used to start with though - especially if one's okay with GTK+ (which seems unlikely for Win32 users).
Granted, unless someone undertakes this conversion, it's not going to happen anyway. I suspect the work of some of the Linux DC++ people could be used to start with though - especially if one's okay with GTK+ (which seems unlikely for Win32 users).