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Subject:	Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.general
Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:31:26 GMT
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> Matt, would you be willing to let someone try to split out the > OS-dependent parts, > so that ports to other platforms are easier? I've been programming for > nearly 30 > years, so that's something I can likely do. I haven't really done any > GUI work, > but I might be able to interest a friend of mine in working with me to do a > Linux version. Given a Linux version, versions for MacOS and the BSDs, > Solaris, > etc. should be fairly straightforward. Given the reports that its using MFC, it would be easier to rewrite a new version from scratch than to port the existing one.

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		Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
(...) If Matt or someonelse rewrite the code (open sourced or not) I would suggest to use a framework that is available to most of the OS like Qt or GTk. That way it would be really easy to port to all OS not just the most known. Wine is working (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

		Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
(...) It is indeed written using MFC, which it makes extensive use of for the GUI. Porting it to another platform would take considerable effort. I think what I'm going to do first is get the source code into a package I can release (and archive!) (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

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		Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
(...) For me, the great think about Track Designer is that it runs just fine under the Wine Windows emulator. I've used it that way under my X86-64 Linux machine for several layouts, including working on NALUG layouts for train shows. I've never (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

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