> BTW, I spun up a copy of MSVC++ recently and started playing
> with ways to
> make a native Windows user interface. I was able to create a static
> library that reimplements simple_dialog() using native calls.
> Is this a
> viable approach? (I haven't done any MS application development up to
> this point).
I'm sure this will start a flame war, but that is not what I want to do.
I use Ethereal on both Linux and Windows. I have wondered for awhile if
anyone has thought of using WxWindows (http://www.wxwindows.org) as the
GUI framework. It is essentially L-GPL'ed (Library General Public License).
WxWindows uses GTK+ (or optionally the Motif) widgets on Unix and uses the
real thing on Windows. So the look and feel for each OS is as a user
expects. There are also Mac OS and OS/2 ports in progress.
Even as a C programmer, I like WxWindows and I find it easy to use and
only slightly slower than straight widget programming. Yet there are
enough classes that I don't feel constrained in what I want the GUI to do.
IMO, the only thing WxWindows needs is a serial port class, but that is
not an issue with Ethereal.
What are your thoughts?
Mark
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