Re: [GLE-general] Problems with QGLE on windows 10

[Christian T. S. <ct...@de...>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 05:58:39PM +0200, Zbigniew Kisiel wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm also an ASCII old timer over several different operating systems and gle
> implementations.

Interesting. My former advisor was using GLE on a DOS machine, and I think
later on windows. So half of the people on the list had to support their
boss with GLE? :-)
 
> I now use gle in two ways:
> 1/ my graphics programs automatically generate gle scripts of what they
> display
> 2/ diagrams are reedited from some old version (such as that from automatic
> output)

I started to use tikz to do this directly in LaTeX. This may be even more
powerful than GLE, except maybe for the data plotting part. For this I still
prefer GLE over all other tools.

> Initially I treated QGLE as just a viewer but then I came to appreciate its
> handy WYSIWYG drawing capabilities, such as placing, moving, editing simple
> objects.  Especially useful for ad-hoc annotations in publication diagrams.
> 
> I would therefore recommend not relegating QGLE too easily to the "software
> dustbin of history".  Not that we yet have a maintainer to take over from
> Johan Struyf...  I really appreciated Vincents initial (if rather buggy)
> gle4 and then Johan's era as he was actually very good at debugging program
> operation, and even reacting to some feature requests.

I am not suggesting to drop QGLE, I am sure it is a useful tool. However the
next Debian release (in two years?) may not support Qt4 apps anymore. So
either QGLE gets ported to Qt5, or Debian/bullseye will have GLE without
QGLE. Maybe it is not so hard, but I have never written a Qt app. These
suggestions seem to fix already half of the problems:

https://www.ics.com/blog/porting-desktop-applications-qt-4-qt-5

This seems to take a little more work:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26180311/qhttp-in-not-available-in-qt5


Christian