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Re: Track Designer Registry
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad
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Sun, 17 Aug 2003 05:23:09 GMT
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> As for Track Designer, even with the source, I expect it would be a very hard
> port to any non Windows platform. I believe it was written in Visual Basic or
> Visual C++ (I forget which although a diligent searcher will find posts in which
> it's discussed) and if so it has a lot of dependencies on Windows things.
Track Designer is written in Visual C++ and probobly makes heavy use of
windows GDI and user calls to make it work. However, there are Open Source
libraries available that essentially provide these calls and map them to
similar calls on a linux system. (such as WINELIB for example)
> As for Track Draw, Cary indicated at BF that a port would be a fair bit of
> work... there are .net and C# and GDI+ dependencies. Cary said he looked at
> OpenGL but it just wasn't what he wanted to use for graphics.
There are projects like MONO that proport to provide the .NET runtime and
C# for linux. But they dont provide GDI+ or Windows Forms (although there
is talk of using the mapping libraries I mentioned above and then putting
Windows Forms on top of that)
IMO (as a programmer that knows about this stuff), it would be easier to
port Track Designer to linux (even to linux on other platforms or to e.g.
MacOSX) than it would to port TrackDraw.
But regardless, that doesnt change the central point, i.e. that having the
Track Designer source code would be a usefull thing.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Track Designer Registry
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| (...) I was unaware that was the point you were making. But if it is, (I was confused, your post read like a multiplatform rant rather than a request to get the source available) why yes, I agree. It's been a year since the community last tried to (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Track Designer Registry
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| In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson wrote: ... (...) ... IMO, that's a pretty amusing statement. Without you having seen either the source to Track Designer or TrackDraw, I think it is a reach to say which would be easier to port to Linux. TrackDraw (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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| (...) I'm not sure which you are referring to, Track Designer or Track Draw... As for Track Designer, even with the source, I expect it would be a very hard port to any non Windows platform. I believe it was written in Visual Basic or Visual C++ (I (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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