Re: CiderPress v3.0.0 released

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch@adelphia.net> wrote:
> Do you have any sense as to whether a Linux/X-Windows port would be 
> practical?  There are a number of cross-platform GUI toolkits in 
> existence, and perhaps Ciderpress could sit on top of one.

A port to wxWidgets would be reasonably straightforward, since wxWidgets
is modeled after MFC.  You'd still have to rewrite the file viewer though --
there's no RichEditCtrl equivalent.

Qt seems nicer than wxWidgets, but I haven't worked with it.

Various people have suggested compiling against the WINE libraries, but I
never investigated that.  CiderPress.exe runs under WINE but it's pretty easy
to make it crash.  (I was hoping to valgrind the main app, but even with
various patches I never got valgrind+WINE to work.)

An ambitious individual could rewrite the app in Java and port it to SWT
or Swing, but that's a huge project.

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