Jörn Reder wrote: > Phil Ehrens wrote: > > > Michael is right, the GUI should definitely be scripted. > > Tcl/Tk is the only scripting language that is perfectly > > portable between Windows and UNIX. > > I don't know you well enough to know whether you're trolling here or > really mean what you're saying... ;) If the latter is the case: avoid > terms like "definitely" and "only". For example Perl and Python are > platform independent at the same level. Both are modern languages having > perfect Gtk+ bindings which make platform independent GUI development > really comfortable, including RAD with Glade.
Perl and Python are NOT platform independent at the same level. Have you coded in Perl, Python, and Tcl for Windows, OSX, Linux, and Solaris? I have. You will spend at LEAST three times as much time doing this with Perl or Python as you would with Tcl/Tk. > But besides this: targeting Windows should have the lowest priority for > transcode in my opinion. It should have no priority at all, but I thought that Transcode supported Windows. My bad. > > There is also the possibility of making the GUI using html > > and javascript, and leveraging the local browser ability > > to render audio and video. This would save a huge amount of > > work. A "toy" webserver would drive the whole thing. > > This is so unbelievable it really makes me think you're kidding... ;) I'm not kidding. I have no idea why you find this so unbelievable. All the gui needs to be able to do is take user input, build command lines, and hook output from Transcode, right?
