Subj : MQTT
To : Digital Man
From : apam
Date : Wed Apr 10 2024 09:05 am
Re: MQTT
By: Digital Man to apam on Tue Apr 09 2024 11:03 am
DM> I was thinking QT myself for a future cross-platform replacement for the
DM> Synchronet control panel (sbbsctrl) for Windows. But when attempting (in
DM> QT) to recreate the same 4-main panel docksite interface we have to today
DM> in sbbsctrl, I wasn't successful. I do plan to take another stab at that
DM> in the future. Also considering using wxWidgets.
I like QT, althought the UI building is probably my least favourite part. I'm not too familiar with the sbbsctrl program (I've seen it a couple of times but don't really remember it) but it might be you have to make a widget if none of the ones that come with do it right.
WxWidgets is also good. I used it for a gopher client I wrote back a while ago, I wasn't aware there was a GUI builder, but apparently there is.
WxWidgets might be a little easer with license requirements, as with qt only the currently supported releases are available as opensource, KDE kept a fork of qt5 to apply patches as they only just have upgraded to qt6, but that doesn't help much on windows. Though I imagine a synchronet control panel would be much easier to keep up with QT, than an entire desktop environment :P
