[time-nuts] Lady Heather's Fat Client

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Thu Dec 31 13:33:46 UTC 2009


Steve Rooke wrote:
> 2010/1/1 Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>:
>> Steve Rooke wrote:
>>> But what about a single code to cover nix and DOS/Windows?
>> It should be possible to the best of my knowledge... I haven't played with
>> DOS or Windows programming for years. Except for some simple GPIB exercises,
>> it must have been back in mid 90ies or something. Anyway, I assume POSIX
>> sockets and serial I/O exists. The only real cleanup is the GUI interface,
>> where wxWidget or GTK might be the options to consider.
> 
> Well, for all the nix variants, standard POSIX sockets and tty code
> will be the same but I have no experience of DOS/Windows system calls
> and functions period. As for the user interface, the existing
> application looks just like a DOS console application so there is no
> windowing code to my mind. It should be able to do it in a similar way
> with curses but I'm not sure how the screen is written. I do know that
> there is a fair amount of processor load, including a lot of system
> calls. On my system, running LH under wine takes the equivalent of 1
> CPU on my quad core. That's a fair amount of processor load but it
> would only be fair to see what that is likely to be once a native port
> is done and the application could be profiled then.

Which only shows to tell that using Wine is just a poor mans option and 
not a long-term option. I migth consider a port.

Cheers,
Magnus




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