On 1/10/2025 3:44 AM, David Ranch via groups.io wrote:
I can appreciate the need to refactor the code though abandoning
Linux is a bad idea IMHO.
I never posted anything about abandoning Linux, the 3 GUI tool kits that I am going to try are available on Linux, Windows and MacOS.
* Tkinter - built into python
* WxPython - Seems to be the most used of the choices - best supported.
* Kivy - Not seeing a lot of activity, but supports Android and IOS.
I also totally get the frustration on the
ever changing UI toolkits but maybe consider using FLTK like what
Fldigi uses to support Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. on
multiple architectures like x86, ARM, etc.
Just looked at FLTK. It is more complex to install than the options I am currently looking at because it requires first building it on the Windows platform. That makes creating an installable package on Microsoft Windows much harder.
If someone wants to do the work for FLTK support, I don't have any objections of adding it to the mix.
My first significant goal is to create hello-world type programs with each of the GUI tool kits.
The next significant goal is to create Windows and Linux installable packages of the hello-world type programs.
And while doing this, document how others can setup their own development and test environments.
Regards,
-John
