[time-nuts] Lady Heather's Fat Client

[Steve Rooke]

Hi,

2010/1/1 Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>:
> Steve Rooke wrote:
>>
>> 2010/1/1 Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>:
>>>
>>> Steve Rooke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But what about a single code to cover nix and DOS/Windows?
>>>
>>> It should be possible to the best of my knowledge... I haven't played
>>> with
>>> DOS or Windows programming for years. Except for some simple GPIB
>>> exercises,
>>> it must have been back in mid 90ies or something. Anyway, I assume POSIX
>>> sockets and serial I/O exists. The only real cleanup is the GUI
>>> interface,
>>> where wxWidget or GTK might be the options to consider.
>>
>> Well, for all the nix variants, standard POSIX sockets and tty code
>> will be the same but I have no experience of DOS/Windows system calls
>> and functions period. As for the user interface, the existing
>> application looks just like a DOS console application so there is no
>> windowing code to my mind. It should be able to do it in a similar way
>> with curses but I'm not sure how the screen is written. I do know that
>> there is a fair amount of processor load, including a lot of system
>> calls. On my system, running LH under wine takes the equivalent of 1
>> CPU on my quad core. That's a fair amount of processor load but it
>> would only be fair to see what that is likely to be once a native port
>> is done and the application could be profiled then.
>
> Which only shows to tell that using Wine is just a poor mans option and not
> a long-term option. I migth consider a port.

Agreed, that's why I'm bringing this up.

Well, if your having a port I might join you or perhaps a decent
amontillado would be nice as well.

Cheers,
Steve

> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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