Hi, Rodrigo. Your PoC app looks very promising and we are happy that you've made this first step. C++/Qt seems to be a good choice as well.
What might be a bit surprising for most of the users hoping for a better UI, there is also one other project to create a Qt replacement for XTherion (started by Michal Plch and available in the qtherion branch of our git repo ;) There are some differences in the scope and technology, though: * the idea was to provide a UI which would be simple enough for new users, not necessarily mimicking XTherion's approach * as a result, it doesn't expect user to know internals of *.th or *.th2 files (and even doesn't support them directly – in this branch therion was extended to use a JSON-based data package to communicate with qtherion UI) * it's based on C++/Qt, too, but heavily using QML to define the UI It's also a PoC in a very early stage and as such hasn't been advertised on the list yet. But it's clear that time is ripe for a new UI. How about some brainstorming with Rodrigo, Michal and perhaps some others on possible synergies and the best way forward? Cheers Martin On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:42 AM Rodrigo Severo via Therion <therion@speleo.sk> wrote: > > Presenting Mapiah. > > Mapiah is my take on a multi-platform, more friendly, modern and performant > graphical interface for Therion. It's written in C++/Qt. It aims to be as > compatible as practical and possible with XTherion. > > This is the "proof-of-concept" release. > > It's source code and it's releases files can be found at the projects home at > SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mapiah/ > > Please let me know what you think about it, if it has any future, if you want > to help. > > > *The name* > > Mapiah is a international friendly version of the portuguese word "mapear" on > the sentence "vamos mapear?" - "let's go surveying?" or "let's go mapping?" - > which is usually pronounced [vʌmu mapi'a]. > > > *Multi-platform* > > Right now we have both Linux and Windows releases as these are the OSs I have > access and minimal experience with. Until some Mac user steps up, that's the > way it's gonna be. > > Having said that, the idea is to follow best practices during Mapiah's > development to ease the release process on all target platforms: Linux, > Windows and Mac. > > > *The C++/Qt choices* > > Going backwards, the Qt framework was chosen as it has an open source > compatible version. It's mature, powerful and seems to take multi-platform > support seriously. > > The first idea was to use Qt Python as the "friendly" requirement could also > be applied to the language chosen but in the end I decided to go with C++ > because I believe that a C++ application might be more easily distributable > across all platforms. > > > *The "proof-of-concept" release* > > The basic reading and writing functionality supposely is th concept being > proved in this release. Supposely because the actual concept I am trying to > prove myself with this release is that I can write functional and decent > C++/Qt code which, for the time being, is kinda proved. > > > *Functionality* > > This 0.0.1 release can read a TH2 file, present it on the screen and save it. > > With an open file you can change the zoom level and write the file again. > > You should be able to see your TH2 file on screen correctly and the saved > file should be functionally identical to the original one. > > All point, line, area, scrap and XTHERION options should be properly read and > saved even if most aren't actually understood/acted upon. > > > *License* > > This software is licensed under GPL 3 or later. > > > *WARNINGS* > > PLEASE TEST! > > DON'T OVERRIDE YOUR ORIGINAL FILE WITH THE ONE WRITTEN BY MAPIAH!! > > THIS IS A PRE-ALPHA VERSION!!! > > > Regards, > > Rodrigo Severo > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion@speleo.sk > https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@speleo.sk https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion
