[Starmap2-devteam] Fw: [rpg-tools] Re: Makeover for an old tool

[Trace K. <Tra...@ne...>]

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From: Trace Kern=20
To: Robert Brix Kjelgaard=20
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 3:12 PM
Subject: Fw: [rpg-tools] Re: Makeover for an old tool


Yet another thing you might want to look over...Lemme know if I'm =
swamping you with too much info. Just trying to help in whatever way I =
can since I can't program worth crap...Heh.

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From: man...@cs...=20
To: rpg...@ya...=20
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 2:11 PM
Subject: [rpg-tools] Re: Makeover for an old tool


ey...@ya... writes:
> - Platform.  I happen to use Linux for my desktop, and I know many
> people who use Macs.  While there are compatibility layers for Windows
> apps, they are usually a pain.  Dual-boots even more so.
<snip>
> So what is my solution?  I think that the ideal Starmap would, at its
> heart, be an SQL database with a Perl/CGI or PHP web interface and
> perhaps even a multi-platform client.  The benefits?

In recent months I've had a growing appreciation for python (and that
is saying something being previously a pretty hard-core perl
advocate).  I believe that this sort of cross-platform tool would be
relatively straight forward to do as a python script...  I've heard
tell that tkinter provides a "native look and feel" on windows, macs,
and unicies (though I personally think that the appearance of Tk under
linux is a bit on the ugly side), and pygame provides a slick
interface to SDL which is also available on all three, right?  There's
probably a compiler which could generate self-contained binaries for
all "supported" platforms so that joe user wouldn't need to have
python and SDL installed...

The definite downside to a web app like that is that everybody in the
world is dependent on the web server being up and available to use the
program.  If the internet is down, can't use it.  If the admin decides
to take it down in a couple of years, can't use it.  One could
distribute the server side stuff, and then anyone savvy enough to run
his/her own web server could run it locally, but...

If I was going to try and make a little RPG tool at this point, I
would probably go the python / GTK / SDL route, and screw the
cross-platform aspect...or make the GUI dual-headed and use GTK under
Linux and tkinter under MacOS/WinXX. =20

My $0.02.

Another option might be writing a C/C++ program with an FLTK GUI.
Maintaining such a program that runs on both Linux / WinXX is not
difficult (my research project is doing just that right now).  I don't
think FLTK has been ported to MacOS though.

Good luck with whatever you decide...

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