[Autorealm-develop] AutoRealm plugin work advancements

[<ber...@ne...>]

Sorry for the long time without news... Many things to do and few time 
to give to autorealm.

I would like to have good news for you after those three weeks, but I 
am facing a problem, and I would like some verifications under windows 
operating systems.
Here are explanations:
I have made the big lines of the plug-in architecture, and have wrote a 
plug-in to test it. The plug-in currently does nothing, except adding an 
option in menus and an item in a toolbar. If toolbar and menu does not 
exists, it creates them.
This functionality, when I see the big number of toolbar items of 
autorealm, will really allow me to gain many time, because debugging 
will be easier, and I will not need to recompile the whole thing each 
time. More, it will be easier for people to contribute their own 
plug-ins (and they will not have to learn to use wxWidgets). So, it will 
save a big amount of time.

The problem is that the plug-in framework I used to avoid having to 
implement loading of plug-ins have a problem, at least on Linux, my OS.
I tried the example workspace on an old windows XP SP3 and it seem to 
work perfectly, so I think (and hope) the problem is just a Linux one.
So, if someone can build the AutoRealm I am making and try to run it 
under windows (more recent than XP, if possible, to be sure there are no 
other problems), it could greatly help me. The fact is that anyway, such 
king of help will be important in future, as I can only quickly build 
and run a windows software at work.

If someone is interested, here are things needed:
_ wxWidgets 2.9 compiled with STL support (2.8 should work too, because 
actually there are no dynamic event handling, but in future I will use 
such things)
_ pluma framework (it can be find on sourceforge)
_ codeblocks (to build)

If someone can write makefiles or create VS project, I would be happy 
to add such files to the project, too.

When I will be sure that the GUI plug-in system is ok, I will be able 
to write things to make it interact with the autorealm workspace itself, 
and work will be almost done for all engines.
It means that next goals will simply be to add basic tools, like 
loading/saving .aur and .aurx files (thanks to a.t...@gm... it will 
be probably be really fast), basic drawings and basic moves.
I hope to be able to have something usable less than a month after 
having plug-in system work. And, I think when those features will be ok, 
I will start to create public alpha releases. The work should go really 
fast then.

PS: as some people already discussed with me via private mails, I would 
like to take advantage of this mail to signal that my mail have changed.