On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > Gene Buckle wrote: > >> Assuming that _something_ should be done with the GUI as it stands now, >> what would be more effective, porting the whole thing to Qt or updating >> Pui to address any deficiencies that it has - at least with regard to >> FlightGear? > > Two or three years ago I've been wandering through the effort of > ripping selected parts from the PLIB source tree and, errrm, 'merging' > these into SimGear (not only PUI). > > It's been a terribly ugly hack (quick and dirty, I didn't even dare > sharing it with the public) which also required tweaks to the > FlightGear build system, it didn't see a single test on any other > platform except Linux/AMD64, but nevertheless I found it suitable to > demonstrate that this might be a pretty feasible way to get rid of the > 'general' PLIB dependency. > > In my eyes this _could_ lead to maintaining the required UI bits inside > SimGear and to improve them according to FlightGear's needs. On the > other hand I'm pretty confident that other toolkits would be ready to > do the same job as well.
I guess what it boils down to what effort would have the most long term gain? I suspect it would be the wholesale jump to a new UI library... g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
