> I never said I liked it or ever used it but it is the standard, it is
> everywhere and if you really want a native Win app you don't much choice.
> By native I mean one that looks like it belongs on the platform rather
> than one that looks like it was ported.
I don't know how important it is to people to have _LyX_ looking like a
native app on Windows. I'd guess especially people with a LaTeX background
do not pay too much attention to appearance _on screen_.
Supporting an MFC frontend would probably mean that somebody has to have
a full-blown Windows installation complete with compiler etc. not only
right now, but in the future, too.
Compare this to using some cross-platform toolkit together with a
cross-compiler and e.g. Wine/vmware/whatever for debugging...
> Of course, LyX would never _act_
> like it belongs on Windows unless we throw in a few spurious:
>
> #ifdef WINDOWS
> if (random() > 0.5) {
> abort();
> }
> #endif
I fear it does that already...
> > I think I have mentioned it already: if there is a real demand for
> > 'LyX under Windows without X' we should try to create a Tk GUI.
>
> What's this "we" business?
>
> ;-)
Well... _I_ have some code hanging around from older projects as well as
from my current project that could help to pave the way (C++ wrapper for
Tcl objects, the cross compilation part, creation of .lib and .dll as well
Windows "setup.exe" programs under Unix...), and I am willing to
contribute that. But I certainly won't do any actual GUI coding (I am
pretty fed up with GUIs currently).
Does that make the "'we' business" clearer? ;-)
Andre'
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