Re: CiderPress, AppleWin, and Wine

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

Andy McFadden wrote:
> mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any thoughts of moving to a portable UI toolkit? I love Ciderpress, but
> > unfortunately cannot run it :-(
>
> Much of CiderPress could be moved to something like wxWidgets fairly
> quickly; the more MFC-like the toolkit, the easier the conversion.
> However, there are a few components that would be awkward.  One example
> is the file viewer, which is really just a RichEdit control that I dump
> text and graphics into.

Hmm, redo in a HTML renderer perhaps?

If it's a fairly pure Win32 MFC app, you might be able to compile it
with Wine - wine is both an emulator and a portability toolkit for
Windows apps

> So yes, I've had thoughts, but it looks to be a substantial bit of work.

Well, it'd make me very happy. I'd be even happier if you library'fied
the guts of it and open sourced it so others could build their own
front ends .... :-)

Matt