Thank you for your replies! The fortran program has no front end it's all done trhrough the command line. But he might have used some C you're probably right. I know that C and fortaran seem to get along well but that is the extent of it. The terminal stays open as a separate window from the GUI.
So it seems that for linux users they would be better off using the core fortran than using the gui on wine? -- Sent from my Nokia N900 Please do not send me word documents plain txt or pdf are prefered. ----- Original message ----- > It sounds that you might be getting the programming language and GUI > interface confused: the core of the program is written in Fortran, and I > suspect (from what you've written) that GUI part of the program is > probably written in C/C++ with the GUI interface being the Win32 API. > > Either the GTK+ or QT toolkits would allow the program to be built for > Linux or Windows. However, I think that this would mean a total rewrite > of the GUI part of the program. Both toolkits work with Python, but if > he's already written the GUI program in C/C++ it might be easier to use > C/C++ again rather changing to Python (especially if he/she isn't that > familiar with Python). Also, I don't know how easy it is for get Python > code to call Fortran code. > > An alterative would be to use .Net for Windows and Mono for Linux. > > > -----Original Message----- > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:28:09 +0100 > From: andres <andre...@gmail.com> > To: "ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] > Message-ID: <1308004089.1893.23.camel@andres-laptop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hello, > > This is a question mainly for developers. I think. It's really a > curiosity of mine and I have little say in the result of the project. > > Someone I know is thinking of releasing his software. It's a program > that at it's core is written in Fortran but has the gui written in > win32. it has other open source programs attached to it as well. All > bundled up in a nice .exe installer. > > He has gone through a lot of trouble of learning win32 and actually > programming the whole GUI. But this at the end means that linux users > have to run the program through wine. Would you consider this a complete > disadvantage and a deal breaker if you would want to create a community > around it and it's worth thinking about "translating" the GUI to > something like python? Or other more cross-platform compatible > languages? (I don't know if it runs in Mac for instance). > > Or would this be a bit of reinventing the wheel? > > It seems to make little difference for an end user as I've seen wine > programs in the software centre. Or would it be incredibly more > efficient if it's a "native" linux program? > > Or would it be more of a question of knowing who your users are going to > be at the end of the day? > > -- > Andr?s envi? esto desde su netbook con UBUNTU: sistema operativo > gratuito, abierto y casi libre. ?Pruebalo! http://www.ubuntu-es.org/ > Por favor, no imprimas este correo. > > >
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