Re: Advice needed on developing app for linux

From: Otto Wyss (otto.wyss_at_orpatec.ch)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:08:50 +0200

Elp <rockfamily@hotmail.com> wrote:

> However, given my little knowledge about development frameworks and
> developer tools for Linux, i wonder if this would be possible to achieve
> under Linux. Do you know of any way to achieve that under this OS? Or is
> porting our application as it is now under Linux totally hopeless at the
> moment ? Any comment, link or book advice would be higly appreciated.
>
What you want to achive isn't easy as the other poster already pointed
out, ActiveX is a major obstacle. Still I suggest you have a look
wxWidgets ("http://www.wxwidgets.org/") which allows you to write cross
platform application. Since you probably have to do a complete rewrite
for Linux it doesn't matter to switch your framework for Windows as
well. That way you could use you new source on both platforms. Also
wxWidgets has some cross platform replacements for Windows specific
features (i.e. Registry entries versus config files). Have a look at the
code sample of wxGuide (URL in signature) to get an impression what can
be achived with wxWidgets.

O. Wyss 

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