Re: [Autorealm-develop] Linux Port Status

[James K. <jke...@jp...>]

EEEEYOW!

Too cool!
I took a long look at it once and just did not have the dedication or time 
then to even really start this kind of work.
Kudos t you!

I"ll be taking a look soon... Getting my new box set up now... :)

Jim TE
On Monday 05 July 2004 20:59, Michael J. Pedersen wrote:
> I will guess from the deafening silence that you've heard people telling
> you a hundred times that they were going to do a Linux port, and all of
> them have failed.
>
> So, I'm telling everybody where I'm going with it while I'm on the trip,
> and how I'm getting there. Step one was to extract the resources from
> delphi, and that has been a significantly less than easy experience, let
> me tell you (since I don't have Windows, I've had to run Delphi in
> Crossover. While it works, it's not exactly what you might call speedy).
>
> I've since converted all of the graphics, and all of the forms (save
> one) into an xrc file. This is a cross platform resource file, usable by
> a toolkit named wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org). I'm posting these
> forms at my website, and I'll tell you all where to get them and how to
> view them without getting a C++ toolkit working.
>
> First, though, a couple of quick notes:
> For now, I'm not dealing with dockable toolbars. I've got things set up
> to make it easy to do that transition when I'm ready for it, but I'm not
> yet ready for it.
>
> There are a couple of forms which have custom controls. These controls
> have not yet been ported to wxWidgets, so they simply have space set
> aside for them (rotateform and frmCTManager).
>
> The graphics are all in png format. I have to deal with transparency
> issues, so I'm not done there yet.
>
> Naturally, the comboboxes and the like do not have their choices
> populated yet.
>
> Some of the controls are space too close together. This will be fixed as
> soon as possible as well.
>
> Almost NONE of the shortcut keys are set up at this time. Soon, soon.
> Too much to do still.
>
> Not one line of code has been written in ANY language. That's my next
> target, actually, to start gluing these forms together, and make the
> program start DOING things.
>
> Despite all of the above, it's still possible to get a feel for where
> I'm going with it, and as such, I'm going to ask people to take a look
> at it. If it's not desired to make this port into the next official
> version of AutoREALM, I can go off and fork, but I think this is not
> really a good idea.
>
> Now, how to view everything?
>
> Go to http://www.wxpython.org/ and install wxpython. If you don't
> already have python installed, get it first (links from www.wxpython.org
> will take you there). Finally, download one of these two archives:
>
> http://www.icelus.org/autorealm-xrc.zip
> http://www.icelus.org/autorealm-xrc.tar,gz
>
> extract to your location of choice, and use the xrced program which
> comes with wxPython to view the .xrc files contained therein. If you
> want to make changes, please feel free to do so and give me a diff. I'll
> get it merged into my main tree asap, and post updates as they come
> available.
>
> In the next few days, watch for my next release, which will include
> *gasp* working code, and instructions on how to get/build it for
> yourself. I'll talk to you all soon!

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