On Mon, May 28, 2001, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> It will be a bit of a rewrite, and my understanding is that Mike has
> already begun to do this. He posted a message a week or more ago about this
> exact topic.
"a bit of a rewrite" is an understatement ;-) It will be a complete
rewrite. The only thing it will have in common with the current
viewer is the database format. The user interface will depend on the
used toolkit (e.g. GTK+, FLTK, Palm OS, Windows).
> The best thing we can do to help speed this is to understand where
> Mike is going with the codebase for the viewer
At the moment, the only thing I can say about the current code base
is that more or less nothing from it will be used in the new design.
The current code base is too Palm OS biased (duh!), while the new
design will separate the GUI from the core functions.
> It wouldn't really make sense to try to port Palm-based applications or
> data formats to this device (.pdb files for example).
Makes perfect sense if you want the same databases to work for both
a Palm OS based and a Linux based app (which is what I'm aiming for
with the "new" viewer).
/Mike
