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[knaveightt]

Hello All,

Spawned from a few /r/dwarffortress comments, I'm starting a thread to discuss having a cross-platform GUI for Masterwork, and all updates pertaining to such. The main focus is more toward the future, as Meph starts to flesh-out ideas for a possible Masterwork Reborn mod (AWESOME). The initial idea here is to provide a cross-platform GUI launcher that would be usable across Windows/Mac/Linux for enabling/disabling/altering settings related to the new Masterwork. My goal would be to provide an interface, coded in Java (what I use in my workplace mostly), but I would love to hear your suggestions and ideas. The future launcher would be usable pretty much exactly how the current Masterwork GUI is used.

Suggestions? Thoughts?

[Meph]

There exists a win-only Visual Basics GUI that is perfectly fine.

There exists a Python cross-platform GUI that is apparently better, but not optimised for the mod yet.

PeridexisErrant and Splinterz are the people to talk to. I will keep out of this discussion for a while.

Good luck.

[fricy]

The initial idea here is to provide a cross-platform GUI launcher that would be usable across Windows/Mac/Linux for enabling/disabling/altering settings related to the new Masterwork. My goal would be to provide an interface, coded in Java (what I use in my workplace mostly), but I would love to hear your suggestions and ideas. The future launcher would be usable pretty much exactly how the current Masterwork GUI is used.
Suggestions? Thoughts?

Don't reinvent the wheel in java, but look at PyLnp.

Edit: Here's the MW launcher source.

[knaveightt]

The initial idea here is to provide a cross-platform GUI launcher that would be usable across Windows/Mac/Linux for enabling/disabling/altering settings related to the new Masterwork. My goal would be to provide an interface, coded in Java (what I use in my workplace mostly), but I would love to hear your suggestions and ideas. The future launcher would be usable pretty much exactly how the current Masterwork GUI is used.
Suggestions? Thoughts?

Don't reinvent the wheel in java, but look at PyLnp.

Edit: Here's the MW launcher source.

I've only ever played around with Python for a few things, definitely more comfortable in Java.

BUT, I will argue with myself that the best approach would be to branch off of the current PyLnp. This would be a bit more ambitious to use as a brush-up on my Python. I think for feasibility's sake, I'm going to try to emulate some of the current MW Launcher's basic functions and see if I can get those in PyLnp.

Unfortunately PyLnp shows everything a little more compact than what would be best for the MW GUI, but I have some things I want to try with that.

Sidenote: thank you for the source fricy

[Meph]

You might like those:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spectcl/files/?source=navbar
http://page.sourceforge.net/