On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 7:08 am, Tim Thomson wrote: <snip> > I would prefer that xlauncher, or a variant be installable via setup.exe, > so it can be used by anyone. If it means porting/rewriting, I'll give it a > shot :) (There isn't all that much code there, most is just writing to > registry, and reading it back. Which is another thing, would it be better > to use a config file rather than registry? Currently, I'm writing to HKEY > Local Machine, but should be writing to current user, so that people with > few rights on an NT style box can use it. If I were to use a config file, > where to put it?)
Personally, I would go for a config file. As mentioned in another post of mine, I was working on a Python/wxWindows GUI. I can send you what I've done if you are interested. My most recent thoughts was to create a generic 'Remote X desktop' launcher, which would run on Windows (with Cygwin-XFree86 backend) and on Linux/Unix (with a XNest backend), and possibly Mac. Further plans were to include support for other remote display tools like VNC. I was also considering switching to Java (due to better IDE's available), although the discussion here as left me unsure. Is the GNU compiler able to deal with Java/Swing, or is Python/wxWindows a better 'pure open source' option? Anyway, Tim, if you want to do it in C/C++, I'll help test/debug, but I can't really help code. OTOH, if Python/wxWindows interests you, I'd help with the coding too. If you know C, Java and Pascal, I'd say you could pick up Python in a day. :-) Rasjid.