[Valentina-studio] [DISCUSSION] Improving column view

[Jochen Peters]

Hi all,

>> The framework
>> -------------
>>
>> This is also from my experience...
>>
>> 1) Do not use wxWindows (or any other cross-platform framework), 
>> except if
>> you want either: spend a lot more in the development or never have
>> professional looking application. You do not believe me? Stop adding 
>> new
>> features and try to remove all the current glitches on all platform: 
>> refresh
>> problems, bad OS behavior, etc. Do not wait at the end this is the 
>> part that
>> will take you about 90-95% time of the whole project. This has been 
>> true for
>> all the places where I worked that tried cross-platform frameworks.
>>
>> 2) Use Cocoa on the Mac. Even if you do not know either it or 
>> Objective-C.
>> You should be running after only 2-4 weeks.
>>
>> 3) Use either MFC or .Net on Windows. MFC is the past and .Net the 
>> future.
>> However, MFC will be supported long time from now.
>
> Argh!!!
>
> Sounds like a bad news.
>
> * I know that Jochen have choose long time wxWindows.
>
> * Eric, but we also want Linux.
>     following your logic, we will need to have 3 TOTALLY DIFFERENT 
> code-base
> for the same application. This is not real for small team I think.
Exactly.

> * if you say true, then why so many developers use wxWindows?
>     I know its list have hundred and more letters per day.
>
> Jochen, what you think?
See my other posting...
>
>
> May be you need ask on wxwindows list/site for success stories?
> Does anybody was able create with it great, famous applications?
> Does exists such list of success stories.
> Actually I have ask you about this before.
> It is interesting to download and check that apps.
Here is a not complete list:
AOL Communicator, Audacity, AVG AntiVirus, CADToMill, Chandler,Chess 
Commander, CTSim, Display Doctor, EarthVision, HelpBlocks,ImageLinks, 
Intuitive MX, LDAP Explorer, Lmule, Mahogany, MinGW Developer Studio, 
MojoWorld, Musik,StoryLines, TerraIM, TortoiseCVS,VietAnh, Voxel 3D, 
Vulcan, wxBlogger,xCHM, Zeemo, Zempt ...

You can find more at www.wxwindows.org.
Of course there are many open source apps - because wxWindows is free. 
But also commercial ones: look at AOL - or AVG AntiVirus...

-- 
Best regards,
Jochen Peters
PIIT GmbH

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