Thanks Curt for the encouragement. I would like to give something back to as
many people as I can as the help I've had to increase my enjoyment of FG is
tremendous and quite overwhelming at times. Unfortunately I have no
experience in the *nix world. I am aware of Xwindows because a variant of
Xwindows was used on some DEC VMS boxes I had some contact with many years
ago.
I don't write software for a job, it is purely a hobby, I tried C++ a few
years ago when I had a bit more spare time on my hands but found that unless
I was developing code all the time (or aleast the vast majority of it) I
forgot more than I learnt between sessions.
dene maxwell wrote:
Bugger! Does Xwindows support ActiveX controls?
I'm a linux guy so I have to ask, "ActiveWhat?" :-)
My understanding of ActiveX controls are that they can be used in a variety
of languages and have the same look and feel across those platforms. IE A
list box control will look and feel the same regardless of whether it's used
in VB, V.Net, VC or even Java. I await correction on this understanding.
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. :-)
The voice of experience Curt? I have nothing but admiration for the effort
the FG developers put into the project and the productivity and ingenuity
they achieve. I am frustrated I can't get FGv099 running but the balls very
firmly in my court on that one, I need a better graphics platform. I never
really expected such a graphics intensive app to run on a 32Mbyte video card
and realise I'm very lucky that v098a ran at all on it.
Regards,
Curt.
Regards
Dene
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