On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Allan Whiteford wrote: AW> Hi, AW> AW> I want to write a GUI telnet client with groovy features (a mud AW> client if that means anything to people). AW> AW> I'd want it to be cross-platform (i.e. windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP AW> and unix) compatible. AW> AW> What language/toolkit should I be looking to use? I'd prefer to do AW> the programming in C. I've found a nice (open source) client which AW> uses C with gtk which I could start from, how easy is it for GTK AW> to run under win32 for people who would want to use the software? AW> Can I provide a statically linked binary? (I'm not trying to hide AW> the source, just make it easy to use for the average windows AW> punter). AW> AW> Do (good) free compilers (not necessarily IDEs) exist for windows? AW> AW> If only everyone used linux, then I wouldn't need to worry about AW> these things. AW> AW> Sorry for being so vague.
Cool, someone else into MUD. Erm, there are quite a few good clients, esp for linux that would not require much porting (I tend to always prefer modding other projects to my needs). As for the toolkit, well, GTK works, and is not bad at it if you can work round some of the problems with the windows version, or wxWindows, which is what we will be using for everybuddy's port some time is meant to be excellent. As for compilers, gcc is good and Free. Take care - RL -- MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |"All that is etched in stone Yahoo:admroblaz AIM:admroblaz |is truly only scribbled in ICQ:66324927 |sand" - RL Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Join Eff http://www.eff.org e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|Take care all - Rob Laz -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
