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Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt

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"Mark P M Lim" <marklim@macgui.com> wrote:
>The main application (explore the contents of the app folder of the 
>CiderPress source code) is too tightly tied to the Windows OS.

Mark,

Seriouly for a moment only...

If I did the port I would probably use Qt and MinGW for the Windows Code.

http://qt-project.org/downloads

I'd never find the time.  Andy would need to take the lead and likely GPL 
CiderPress so we wouldn't need to buy commercial licences for Qt.

Some Conditional Compilation would create the appropriate look and feel for 
the targets, and would allow a pseudo-generic GUI as well.

If I tied my ass to any cross-platform product, it would be Qt. Much smarter 
people than me have done so. If you haven't tried it yet you might consider 
downloading and building some of the demos.

Qt is known to behave consistently in various Windows, on the Mac OS, and on 
various Linux Platforms and Android and iOS etc.

I used Qt 3 quite abit... a decade ago already:

http://qt-project.org/downloads

Those other smarter people are still using Qt.

That's pretty much as much seriousness that I can handle now. Ecept to say 
that such a port of CiderPress would replace the MFC Controls with Qt 
Widgets and after the initial pain CiderPress would run anywhere.

One other port that I would like to do would be for the ORCA C Compiler.

But let's face facts... the days are already getting too short for having 
all the fun that I would like, so 20 years from now when some strange 
variants of current systems are around I'd still be mucking with replacing 
controls with widgets.

Bill

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Utilities Mark P M Lim <marklim@macgui.com> - 2013-12-29 01:59 +0000
  Re: Utilities D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2013-12-29 20:48 +0000
  Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2013-12-29 20:53 +0000
    Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2013-12-29 18:59 -0600
    Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2013-12-30 09:24 -0800
      Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2013-12-30 20:34 -0600
        Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt Mark P M Lim <marklim@macgui.com> - 2013-12-31 09:13 +0000
          Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2013-12-31 21:53 -0600
            Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt Mark P M Lim <marklim@macgui.com> - 2014-01-01 07:35 +0000
              Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-01-01 07:08 -0600
        Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2014-01-01 09:48 -0800
          Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt Mark P M Lim <marklim@macgui.com> - 2014-01-25 02:29 +0000
            Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2014-01-25 19:43 +0000
              Re: Quick Look plugin for NuFX/ShrinkIt Mark P M Lim <marklim@macgui.com> - 2014-01-25 23:20 +0000

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