David Burgun wrote:
Thanks Charles, so it has nothing to do with CPlat then? I was just
confused as to why it was mentioned in connection with Rev/CPlat
and thought maybe I'd have to look at it in order to evaluate CPlat.
CPlat is a cross platform library that will (should?, might?) help
you build GUI apps.
wxWidgets is another similar library. It is written in C++ and can
be directly used for C++ development.
It also has a Python, Perl and various other interface layers so it
can be used from those other languages.
cross-platform includes embedded platforms (PalmOS, WindowsCE)
If we can't convince you to use Rev rather than a C++ library :-),
then I'd suggest a look at wxWidgets as an alternate to CPlat.
(and btw the wxWindows name has been completely dropped by the
wxWidgets folks, following discussions with MS).
You don't have to convince me! I am convinced and have been since the
day I first started to Rev! I have to do this to give a well balanced
case to my manager. We have already decided to use it for a number of
projects (thanks to the help of the wonderful Rev'ers on this list),
but the worry is that Rev won't be able to hack it for *every*
project we *might* want to do and so we are looking at other
solutions.
BTW, I can't say I'm overly impressed with CPlat so far, for the
following reasons:
1. You have to download three separate archives and then splice
the folder structure together by hand.
2. You have to then muck around in CodeWarrior setting up Source Trees.
3. I did this and tried to build the sample HelloWorld project and
got g-zillions or errors since some files are missing.
So far I've spent about 5 hours on it and still haven't got "Hello World" up!
I did the equivalent for wxWidgets + wxPython in about 30 minutes -
but there are so many potential factors involved (machine, OS, ....)
that it's probably not a fair comparison.
We just need it to work on MacOS X , Windows and maybe Linux/Unix.
Thanks a lot for your input.
All the Best
Dave
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