Hello everyone,

I'm here to find some motivated developers to port on MorphOS the wxWidgets python module.

First, check the official web site of wxWidgets: http://www.wxwindows.org/

wxWidgets is a C++ program to easly create graphics interfaces. The special feature of it is to have a python module. By the simplicity of Python language, and because wxWidgets respects the original underlaying GUI, we can bring to MorphOS an amazing feature: create in few minutes wonderfull GUI for any applications.

Thanks for your attention,
Guillaume ROGUEZ - aka Yomgui

[edit]Changed wxWindows in the new name: wxWidgets[/edit]

[ Edited by Yomgui on 2005/11/18 18:43 ]

OMG !!! Master Yomgui is back !
after Blender... WxWidgets ? that's an amazing idea, i hope you'll find some dev mates to make it !

Wow thats a very cool app. I just got done taking a look at its home page. We could use this for sure. Come on all your devs, come give him a hand on the project!

It's a coordinate-based system, no auto layout.
This means - no MUI. GadTools and such crap. Nothing wonderful.

Sonic, I'm a bit confused by what you'r saying:

If it's only a coordinate-based system, a gadget is well-know by its position couple and its size couple, isn't it?

But WxWidget ports uses os-system gadgets, so an application GUI is rendered with the platform dependent GUI system. So, a particular gadget in one system isn't shaped like on another one, isn't it?

So... If you fix the layout by a coordinate-based system ony you can't make a portable API! Or you'll issue on many overlay on yours gadgets...!

What's wrong?

[Edit]
As written on www.wxpython.org:

Quote:

# Constraint-based and sizer-based layouts.

MUI handles both, no?

[/Edit]

[ Edited by Yomgui on 2005/11/18 22:34 ]

I see the bounty for OS4.x users to donate to porting WxWidgets to OS4.x, with the description that says the port of WxWidgets will make it possible to port many software programs and games much easier, that use this universal tool.

Is this something that we should look into porting to MorphOS and MUI4 as well, so it will be easier to port more software to MorphOS?

Not being a proficient programmer, I don't know if I understand the exact usefulness of this idea, and I would appreciate it being explained more clearly for myself and for others that might be interested in either donating to a bounty (if one is set up for this) to bring this to MorphOS, or to other developers who might be willing to work on such a port to MorphOS.

My understanding is that this system allows programmers to write code using the WxWidgets and the port of it converts this code to use the native GUI tools of each platform that is supported by WxWidgets. In the case of MorphOS, that would mean that it would convert to MUI4 windows and buttons, etc.

Am I correct in the concept?

[ Edited by amigadave 10.04.2012 - 18:28 ]

cool project would be a nice feather in the morphos cap!

Yomgui and Sonic!! Yahoo 3l33t morphos guys still around

> My understanding is that this system allows programmers to write code
> using the WxWidgets and the port of it converts this code to use the
> native GUI tools of each platform that is supported by WxWidgets. In
> the case of MorphOS, that would mean that it would convert to MUI4
> windows and buttons, etc. Am I correct in the concept?

Yes.

> Yomgui and Sonic!! Yahoo 3l33t morphos guys still around :-P

"Last Login: 2010/3/18 6:24"
https://morph.zone/users/1170.html

@Andreas_Wolf: half answer, I'm more often logged than sonic

@others: wxWidgets has now a huge and complex API, a port is not an easy task now.
And not by me... (too busy until the end of this year)

> @Andreas_Wolf: half answer, I'm more often logged than sonic

I know, that's why I quoted only from his profile and not from yours :-)

Yomgui,
Quote:

that is why the bounty for the OS4.x port is being done in phases with only two parts included in the first phase.

I would expect the same kind of approach would have to be used for any MorphOS port.

It is too bad that any work on the OS4.x port will probably be aimed at using Reaction, instead of MUI. If they aimed their work at MUI3.9, it would probably also work on AROS and MorphOS with little or no changes.

[ Edited by amigadave 11.04.2012 - 11:39 ]

andreas i guess you just cant help it ...

> andreas i guess you just cant help it ...

True, I can't refrain from chuckling about calling someone a "morphos guy still around" who has not logged in for more than 2 years.

I said it, hee haw, because I'm glad they still lurk around. Its better than dissapearing as some have.

> they still lurk around

Sonic does "still lurk around" enough in terms of MorphOS to still call him a "morphos guy"? Interesting, as I thought he had completely switched from MorphOS to AROS several years back. Him not having logged into MorphZone for over 2 years may be indication of that.
From his October 2011 interview:

"I still keep my Pegasos just because I feel sorry to drop it."

Does not sound like a "morphos guy" to me.

More hints:
http://archives.aros-exec.org/index.php?function=modules/sql/filesbyuploader&submitter=Pavel%20Fedin
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewpost.php?uid=392
http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/search.html?frmWords=fedin

> Its better than dissapearing as some have.

As far as I can see, Sonic *has* disappeared from 'MorphOS land' some years ago.

Isn't this the thing that was holding back Audio Evolution?

> Isn't this the thing that was holding back Audio Evolution?

AE5, yes.

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7104&forum=32&start=10

>> wxWidgets has now a huge and complex API, a port is not an easy task now.
>> And not by me... (too busy until the end of this year)

> It is too bad that any work on the OS4.x port will probably be aimed at using
> Reaction, instead of MUI. If they aimed their work at MUI3.9, it would probably
> also work on AROS and MorphOS with little or no changes.

Seems the Sam460ex port of MorphOS may lead to a wxWidgets port to MorphOS:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=717243

I would really like to see wxWidgets ported to MorphOS.
There are many great apps using it...
And it's C++.