[time-nuts] Lady Heather's Fat Client

[Steve Rooke]

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.

Cheers,
Steve

> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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