dene maxwell wrote:
Bugger! Does Xwindows support ActiveX controls?
I'm a linux guy so I have to ask, "ActiveWhat?" :-)
If I publish the source code it will at least provide the framework for someone to adapt to a more suitable format for a variety of platforms/OS's
It's your work so you are welcome to write it in whatever tools you prefer. If you are building something flightgear related, it would be great if you could write your software in a multi-platform way (such as what we've done with FlightGear itself) so that everyone who runs flightgear, can run your tool. But that can be a lot of extra work, it can involve sacrifices and tradeoffs, and ultimately it's your decision.
You'll get people griping at you no matter what you do. If you go with VB it's not cross platform, if you go with fltk it's doesn't look good or doesn't have an intuitive file selection box, if you pick any other graphical toolkit you'll find someone who doesn't like it for some reason (licensing, language, features, look and feel, platform compatibility, etc.) and are happy to let you know about that. Occasionally people will just say stuff to be contrarian or because they are miffed about something unrelated.
So at the end of the day you just want to pick what you think will work best for your skills and something that will help you be the most successful in reaching your goals. Listen as best you can to the well founded comments (such as those encouraging multi-platform compatibility), and ignore the fringe (or overly negative) stuff.
It's your project after all, just make sure you put on your flame retardant suit before you try to give the world any kind of a gift. :-)
Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
