New (Delphi) xlauncher

Tim Thomson tim.thomson@paradise.net.nz
Sun Jul 21 20:22:00 GMT 2002


Hi there,

To those of you interested in the progress of my xlauncher program(s), I
have added some more features to the Delphi version. These include
storing and retrieving configuration sessions to and from the registry,
multiple font path, or font server specification, and better support for
-from parameter, it now uses your IP, instead of name. If it can't find
an IP address, it doesn't provide the parameter to XWin.exe.

It is available at http://xlauncher.sourceforge.net

I'm still not sure where to head with the non-delphi version. I have
some options, but all have disadvantages:

libW11 doesn't look like it will do everything I need without the use of
more libraries, ie xforms or gtk. 

gtk isn't stable enough yet?

wxWindows - a _lot_ like MFC, but cross-platform. Would need to be made
into a cygwin package. Would be the easiest to rewrite the delphi app
in.

win32api isn't very cross platform. Could use wine to port it to
unix/linux?

I'll look at how hard it would be to build wxWindows dll for cygwin, if
that works well, I may use it, otherwise win32api may be the way,
although pretty much eliminates a cross platform approach.

Cheers,

Tim.




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