2008/5/2 James Harkins <
jamshark70@...>:
>
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:13 AM, John Glover wrote:
>
> > Personally I think it would be a good idea to create a sclang app on
> > windows so things are closer to the other platforms. The GUI app could
> > then be written in something cross-platform such as QT, WxWidgets or
> > even Java.
>
> I remember we had this discussion once upon a time, but nobody could agree
> which toolkit to use. While the fur was flying, sciss got started on
> swingosc and ended up doing such a fantastic job on it that it basically
> stopped the conversation.
>
> I don't have any strong objection to reimplementing the cocoa widgets using
> some other toolkit, provided the sc classes retain as much compatibility as
> possible with existing user code.
I agree that if the "main" or "default" sclang editor was a
cross-platform one that would be great, and would be a good way to
make the best use of limited developer time. I can see that trying to
get community agreement on a toolkit (or whatever) would be futile -
would we have agreed on a Java GUI server? I doubt it, instead sciss
just made it and It Was Good.
Similarly the future of crossplatform sclang editor is going to be
determined by where the developer effort goes and where the
user-takeup goes. At the moment we have plenty of interesting
candidates, and I feel like the evolutionary race is just beginning...
Dan
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