On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 15:20:49 +0100 Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Although I have a working Lazarus written frontend, I am getting the > message, it may not be accepted in Devuan, for the reason it is > written in Lazarus Pascal. Therefore, I am considering taking the leap > of trying to rewrite it for GTK2 or GTK3, the implementation language > being C++. > > However, this is a high hurdle for me, and I cannot be confident I > even succeed. > > In the case of opting to use GTK2 or GTK3, I will need an IDE to > create the graphical interfaces. GTK* is, imho, too big a hammer for writing this simple back end. It would pull in thousands of lines of code. Ask about Py/Tk, and whether *that* would be accepted. Even Zenity: Would that be accepted? Zenity would mean you could code your front end as shellscripts, although the resulting user interface would look a little like a 1989 DOS pseudo-windowing interface. Another suggestion, if you'd like to use C, is the libsx package: VERY lightweight GUI. Here's a no-systemd notification system, using libsx, that a guy on Debian-User wrote: http://a3b3.com/stuff/sxnotify.c The preceding link has detailed build instructions. IMHO GTK* and Qt* are waaaay overkill. SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
