[sldev] Re: Decoupling UI widget set from rest of viewer (Re: Qt for the viewer)

[JB Kraft]

Thanks Rob. FWIW, investigating this is quite high on my hit list if I could
just find the time (or a sponsor ;) for it. At this point, I think it would
be a worthy pursuit. There is nothing like it out there as a toolkit that I
am aware of.

JB

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at lindenlab.com> wrote:

>
> On 7/15/08 1:54 PM, JB Kraft wrote:
>
>> Qt is ok, but personally I find WxWidgets much easier to deal with. MOC is
>> a strange creature. That said, I rather like the current ui tools. If as
>> much time were put into a good refactoring and decoupling, making the
>> current ui tools into an independant library as it would take to port to Qt
>> or Wx, I think that would be a very useful toolkit for cross-plat GL work.
>> Perhaps that's generous though ;)
>>
>
> Last I remembered, Alissa Sabre had done some early work for using Gtk for
> text input, out of frustration with the current UI's lack of support for
> things that matter greatly for non-Latin character sets.  I don't know what
> the status of that work is (or remember the issue number in JIRA), or if the
> current UI has improved to enough to make it less of an issue, but I think
> she may have some well-informed thoughts and suggestions about decoupling.
>
> Rob
>
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