Re: Advice needed on developing app for linux

From: Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez (jkerouac_at_bgsec.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:06:06 +0200

Elp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have developed a Windows desktop application and are now thinking of
> doing the same for linux.
>
> Our application relies heavily on ActiveX controls in order to display
> within a single application Flash files, Web pages, videos files and
> streams, remote deskop control... We have choosen the ActiveX way to be able
> to provide all the features we needed in our application without having to
> reinvent the wheel.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

¿Have you tried Kylix? It could be what you are looking for, with
funcionality similar to that of ActiveX, but not real ActiveX. You
can download the community edition that it's completely free and
try it. But remember, it's pascal... 

-- 
Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
jkerouac@bgsec.com
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
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mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
                 -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"

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