Re: Swarm -> Windows-NT...

[Vladimir Jojic]

>   However, rather than a specific port of Swarm to Windows,
> we will go the route of making Swarm platform independent
> by replacing the current TK/Tcl / BLT / X-windows GUI 
> interface with a JAVA-based GUI. This should not
> have any real impact on user apps, as we already provide
> a set of GUI independent routines in Swarm, so we will 
> just translate them into JAVA GUI calls instead of TK/Tcl
> calls. 

Still you will need the gcc to compile the swarm app, and I am not sure,
that gcc will know how to link java libs, java gui translator lib and
swarm libs, all together. 

But, than again that company could provide you with a stand alone
application (or an applet) that receives messages from swarm app (compiled
with the java gui translator lib) and displays the output (chances are that
this will be slow).

How will this work? Are they going to give you the source code?

Don't get me wrong, I think that it is a good idea, to make Swarm portable
(and Java is the best way to do it at this moment, not to mention the
possibility of viewing the progress of simulation on the Web). But, I
don't see a way to do it, and preserve the performance you had with
tcl/tk/blt/X conglomerate. I am probably missing something, right? 

Regards,
Vladimir




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