On Wed, 24 May 2000, Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba wrote:
> I personally don't like Java, but as long as the engine
> specs are free, nothing stops you from developing design
> tools even in QBasic. IMHO, design tools are easier to
> develop than an entire engine.
Ofcourse the specs will be free. However, I think it would be a waste of
time to produce a separate implementation of the toolkit for every system.
> There are some C/C++ development toolsets which enable
> cross-compiling for Windows and UNIX. I guess most people
> won't need anything else.
Compiling console apps on both systems is possible. But I'm not sure about
GUI toolkits. There is a GTK port for Windows, but judging by the web page
it's not release quality yet. Besides, GTK is plain C. Qt for Windows is
good, but it's not free, so useless for us unless someone has any cash to
donate.
It is possible to use a lower level library, like GGI or SDL, but then
we'd have to write all the GUI stuff ourselves. Disadvantages: more work
and look-and-feel do not match the OS it's running on.
And don't forget Mac users, they can use Java but I think some cross
platform libraries may not be available on the Mac.
> I may be biased here, because I really hate Java. `:]
Why?
I can imagine if you hate the many useless applets that are on the web today
(most either don't add anything to the page or don't work well). But that
isn't an argument against the language itself.
Bye,
Maarten
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