We are launching our new web site where we say "Terminal/GUI" but we miss the ( full ) GUI part. We can add a list of the several h*, x* and v* guis created so far for Harbour but then we need to find answers to questions like "which is the best?", "which one to choose?". Clearly here the things become hard since we have both Linux and Windows ( and few Mac ) users.
Options: 1 - remove GUI from from the headlines and say "there are several GUIs created..." 2 - pick up one of the already existing ones and "promote it" as the "default one" 3 - create a new GUI as we like Clearly option 1 is the quickest, option 2 will start a lot of "mine is better...", option3 in "insane". About option 2: - xhgtk ( on sourceforge ) seems to be a good candidate it's created by developers that are also active with Harbour, it follows a documented standard like GTK and it works under Lin, Win and is announced to work also under OS X - another possibility would be FiveWin it exist for Win, Lin and OS X it is used by many [x]Harbour developers and it will help to keep the community "close" - GT graphic "layer" on top of GT the web has changed everything. In the mid 90's the programs needed to be exactly like Office while today users switch from our apps to gmail, to bank online accounts, to "tax administration" sites so they use many different interfaces every day. This means that a "strictly" native interface is not "critical" as in the past. If only we could have some graphic on top of GT we could probably save much of our code, give a "decent" UI to our apps and keep the speed of text for remote access. Comments? best regards, Lorenzo _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
