Re: GUI as nice as character-based

[Christophe Marchal]

Well, you have the java choice ;-)
Java and javawebstart do the same thing as explain by James.
Check http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/architecture.html
But you'll still locked into Sun (instead of microsoft) ;-)

Christophe

Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:

And will this next version of .NET run fine on Linux and Mac OS?  I don't
keep current enough with MS and I know they keep suggesting they will run on
Linux and MacOS, but I'm not familiar with any projects that will actually
accomplish that.  While their .NET efforts do look like they have a lot of
things going right for them, I still don't like locking into Microsoft for
everything.  If I knew I could deploy the results of .NET development
efforts on other platforms, I'd be much more interested.  --dawn
Dawn M. Wolthuis
Tincat Group, Inc.
www.tincat-group.com
Take and give some delight today.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James Canale, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:31 PM
To: 'U2 Users Discussion List'
Subject: RE: GUI as nice as character-based
 

So, shockwave is fine, Java
Web Start is fine and anything else that could be installed by users
     

going
 

to this web page and "clicking here" and that is maintained something
     

like
 

Adobe pdf readers would be fine.
     

In case you haven't seen the next version of .NET yet, Visual Studio 2005
has a "Click Once" feature that is exactly this.  The "zero touch
deployment" or "xcopy" stuff that started with the first release of .NET was
like the first version of Windows, the start of an idea that wasn't really
too far along.  The next version improves quite a bit on this beginning.
Actually, you have options to start from a web 'click', install a link to
the desktop/start menu, etc..  It automatically checks/downloads a newer
version (or runs locally if no connection to the server).  I'm sure there
are still going to be some issues (dealing with unmanaged code comes to
mind) but, it should work very well with UniObjects.NET (when it gets here).
Regards,

Jim

 

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