I've been trying to figure out which language/toolkit to use to quickly develop a timing diagram editor. Lots of ideas have been suggested, but none simple, and none point-n-click interfaces that let the user concentrate more on the problem of designing a timing diagram than the problem of using the timing diagram program.
I found out about the HTML <canvas> object and thought that HTML+Javascript was the answer. Then I discovered that (for good reason), Javascript lacks file I/O. Back to the drawing board, because I don't want to require users to install Apache, and I don't want to write an AJAX app... generally speaking, I hate web programming. So far, the two easiest ways to accomplish this are to use Visual Basic or the Cocoa Interface Builder and Objective-C. Neither option serves my goals of making this work with Linux. I've also considered Java and Swing, because it's portable, but since Java isn't yet Free Software, there are issues with Java support on most Linux distros. I have used wxWidgets before, but I'm sick of C++. I'd much rather use Ruby, but none of its GUI bindings are well-documented, and moreover any GUI toolkit that doesn't have a drag-n-drop builder is a pain, as far as I'm concerned. Also, I'm sure people on this list know some critical thing that I don't know that would give me an easy answer. Hence the rant. :) -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
