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From: Thesaloniki/Greece

Registered: 2006-10-17

Posts: 9

Porting a Borland C++ VCL 6.0 win32 app

Hi all,  i am about to start porting a borland c++ win32 gui app in order to make it crossplatform (Linux/Win). I have looked briefly at GTK2,Qt 4.x,wxGTK. I think i have made up my mind, but is there anything i need to know/look into before proceeding ? (the app will be open source)

BTW - Arch simply just rulez (switched a few months ago from gentoo, got tired of waiting for compilations)

twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Porting a Borland C++ VCL 6.0 win32 app

wxWindow is a good one, it looks like QT on KDE, and gtk on gtk

aquila_deus

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 348

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Re: Porting a Borland C++ VCL 6.0 win32 app

wxWindow is a good one, it looks like QT on KDE, and gtk on gtk

Except that its API is completely different from gtk's and qt's

From my hacking experience it's quite primitive (like MVC?): a lot of type-unsafe macros, and the layout management is hard to use and different from most GUI toolkits on X. Also, it forces you to set fixed sizes for some borders and widgets, which is a very bad thing.

If you don't have license problem, qt4 would be the best. It covers much more than what gtk does, and is probably the easist to use, though it's not yet popular on major linux distros. Gtk should not be considered if your app has to be cross-platform (not very good on windows, completely suck on osx)