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From: "apam" 
Subject: MQTT
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  To: Digital Man
  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

Andrew

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