Steve Rooke wrote:
2010/1/1 Magnus Danielson <[email protected]>:
Steve Rooke wrote:
But what about a single code to cover nix and DOS/Windows?
It should be possible to the best of my knowledge... I haven't played with
DOS or Windows programming for years. Except for some simple GPIB exercises,
it must have been back in mid 90ies or something. Anyway, I assume POSIX
sockets and serial I/O exists. The only real cleanup is the GUI interface,
where wxWidget or GTK might be the options to consider.
Well, for all the nix variants, standard POSIX sockets and tty code
will be the same but I have no experience of DOS/Windows system calls
and functions period. As for the user interface, the existing
application looks just like a DOS console application so there is no
windowing code to my mind. It should be able to do it in a similar way
with curses but I'm not sure how the screen is written. I do know that
there is a fair amount of processor load, including a lot of system
calls. On my system, running LH under wine takes the equivalent of 1
CPU on my quad core. That's a fair amount of processor load but it
would only be fair to see what that is likely to be once a native port
is done and the application could be profiled then.
Which only shows to tell that using Wine is just a poor mans option and
not a long-term option. I migth consider a port.
Cheers,
Magnus
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