WxWidgets

What happened to the port for WxWidgets ?
it enables Filezilla to be ported to Amiga OS4

Are you speaking about this port?
http://portingwx.blogspot.com.es/?m=1

there is a new entry one year after.

@EgilLunde

Seems like this died out, sadly.

@Antique

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Yes, it certainly seems that way.

Hans

Well, let's give it a chance. The latest entry (http://portingwx.blogspot.com.es/2013 ... -over-play-again.html?m=1) does say "So I will continue the story. And the port.". And that's only a bit more than a month old, with XMas/NY in between.

I'm still hoping.

Best regards,

Niels

@Nbache

When i read stuff like "There is still a story to tell here. One about mountains and ports. About triangles. And about things that never die." , i have very big and fat doubts that anything will come up from here.

I.e. when person do something, he do it. When he break, he says "sorry it was on hold, i continue there is new update", but when there all those "we will never die" , "banana" and co, it just tells.

So, its die on 98%. Sadly of course, but was expected from beginning after i read first few posts year or how much ago.

@kas1e

Of course it's possible you end up being right, but personally I will keep my hopes up a little longer.

Best regards,

Niels

For me it has been dead for a long time.

@kas1e
I'm with you on this. There were no real updates for more than a year, and then he comes back with a somewhat pretentious post... We'll see if there will be any progress.

He's not exactly ramming the "pretentious post" in our faces though is he? So lighten up. It's not like he's been given any machine to do it or other up front bounty.

Generally though rather than waste massive effort on these foreigh toolkits, that even when working don;t really bring any major apps, just utilities that would have been better written natively why not write applications? It's more fun for a start!

For example FileZilla why? We have several good ftp clients allready, and servers too. Why wait for a port of atoolkit soyou can wait for a port of an app when you can encourage developers of existing aps to add the features you need? (if they are absent).

WxWidgets is not just a toolkit, it has various support libraries just like Qt. This is the same old native application vs foreign toolkit debate.
Why wait for a toolkit? Who should I encourage to add Odamex support for their native server browser? I know where you are coming from, but I was looking forward to this port, so it was a letdown for me.

@broadblues
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Would people rather give money into an escrow account, or give it directly to some guy that runs off with it and never does anything? Remember, this is the second or third person for this bounty... Keeping funds in escrow makes it easier to reassign, and helps avoid a complete loss, which I find preferable to some alternatives.

@broadblues
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I submitted WxWidgets as a bounty because there are some apps that I am interested in that are programmed using it. That's it.

I'd like to use KiCad. I think it would get here quicker via WxWidgets rather than either making it to be AmigaOS native or someone starting something comparable completely from scratch. Same for some others.

Please understand that I am not against native ports, and I'd happily welcome them. There are just certain things that are probably easier to get via toolkits, though this one has been curiously plagued with unhappenings...

@broadblues

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For starters, unlike other toolkits, wxWidgets uses the OS' native gadgets where possible. It's a thin wrapper for the native GUI system, and is about as close as you can get to having a native app on each supported platform using one toolkit.

Why use it? Well, there aren't enough AmigaOS users for writing AmigaOS only software to be commercially viable. WxWidgets offers the chance to write multi-platform software with native GUIs on each platform.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more fully native apps. However, wxWidgets would definitely be good to have.

I was personally hoping that wxWidgets would be ported, as I use it with my software.** WxWidgets is one of the major things needed before I could port them to AmigaOS (the other being Gallium3D).

Hans



** If anyone tries out my software, I'd welcome feedback via my company's contact page.

@billt

[QUOTE] Please understand that I am not against native ports, and I'd happily welcome them [/QUOTE]

The problem is that there are NO programmers left that code native amigaoid os software so we need to port toolkits and linux stuff. But i'm not complaining as i'm liking the QT port as well as the mplayer and other linux ports

@magnetic

I've got at least 3 AmigaOS specific programs on the go at the moment.
Hopefully they may even be finished one day :). There are still developers though (Sketchblock, anyone?)

@magnetic
You are basing this on the premise that people who port toolkits an linux stuff would otherwise develop native software.

@Hans

"** If anyone tries out my software, I'd welcome feedback via my company's contact page."


I tried your software Relight. It's blazing fast, accurate and easy to use. The GPU acceleration rocks!

I hope that you will port it on OS4 as soon as wxwidgtes will be ported too.
Meanwhile, i encourage who needs to edit or correct the light on his own photo collection tro try Relight. (can correct the light @ the speed of light, even giant images)

@Hans

(off topic I know)
What is it with Kiwis and that Kea bird? ;)

A developer at a company I worked for some years back wrote his own light weight Windows FTP client for customers to use and called it KeaFTP. Yes, he was from NZ.

It was a nice little FTP client.

(Back on topic)
I would like to see a Python GUI framework for the Amiga, other than PyGame that is, and WxPython is something you can get Python bindings for.

@prowler

There's also a PyQt, if somebody wants to try getting that to work.