Re: Transferring program to .dsk image on Win32?

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On Jul 29, 1:15 pm, Andy McFadden <fad...@fadden.com> wrote:
> sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > To me it wouldn't be worth the time. C++ is not a problem for me, but I
> > > > always figure on things like this that if it was easy the original version
> > > > would have included the feature. I am lazy in this way:) I'd rather spend my
> > > > time doing kiddie games and graphics and music for the Apple II.
>
> It's not hard, but it's a fair amount of work, and it never got prioritized
> over the other features that went in.  It's certainly much nicer for
> anything larger than an 800K floppy, but it doesn't allow you to do
> anything that you couldn't do before, so it got prioritized below the
> things for which there was no other way.
>
> Every time I open a hard drive or CD-ROM image I really wish I had it.
>
> > The problem for anyone who wants to enhance Ciderpress will likely not
> > be that it is written in C++, but that it uses MFC (MS Foundation
> > Classes) - which isn't included/licensed with the free versions of
> > Visual Studio. I.e. you must buy the dev environment first.
>
> > A great first step would be porting the UI to WxWidgets.
>
> I've used wxWidgets.  It's very like MFC, but with the larger warts fixed
> (MFC is the original Windows API with C++ objects slapped haphazardly
> on top).  MFC was the Way One Did Things at the time if you wanted to
> write Windows apps in C++, so it's what I used; if I were starting today
> I'd probably write it largely in C# with Windows Forms.
>
> Last I checked wxWidgets didn't provide anything like the RichEdit control,
> which does most of the work for the file viewer.  That remains the one
> piece that's hard to replace.  Rich Edit is one buggy piece of software,
> but it's capable of quite a bit once you find the largely undocumented
> stuff (like how to insert an image).
>
> In related news, I recently lost a bunch of stuff in a hard drive crash.
> I have backups of most things, but I lost the "buggy disk image" collection
> that I used for regression tests.  It did make me glad that I open-sourced
> CiderPress though -- no matter what happens to my computers, there will be
> a copy of the sources out there somewhere.
>
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