Qt is *very* cross-platform. I don't have experience with wxWidgets, so they may be the same, but with Qt, I've usually just required a recompile when going between OSX, Windows, and Linux.
Just my humble plug. On Tuesday 29 January 2008 23:15, Martin Ellison wrote: > Several comments to a few of many comments: > > - to me. the main problem with the user interface is that it is part > of a large monolithic back-end-plus-user-interface. If I wanted to > make changes to Cin2, where would I start? What I would want (if I were > doing any coding) is to be able to draw a circle around the bits of code > that I needed to think about. > - the other problem with the user interface is that it uses its own > toolkit. You don't want to maintain a GUI toolkit. You want to use one > that someone else is maintaining. Actually there are several good toolkits > out there (Gnome, Qt, wxWidgets, MS Windows) and it would be nice if (at > least in principle) anyone could rewrite just the user interface to work > with their favourite toolkit without too much effort. Myself, I would go > with wx as it is cross-platform. We may need to build some custom widgets, > but then separating out that part of the code into a GUI widget would be a > win. - free/open source is not open development. You can write code > yourself and release it under the GPL, and it is free/open source. But > the, what is 'open' development? You need to have a 'Linus' who decides in > the end what is and is not part of the official release. What I believe is > important is that the design is modular (see my previous posts) so that > developers can work on their own modules without official approval and then > the community can mix-and-match whichever modules they want. > - I agrree with Christian, the name should not be anything like > 'Cinelerra'. Cin3 will do as a temporary reference. I'm a bit short of > ideas for the release title. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
