[Xastir] GNIS Labels ?

[William McKeehan]

I would love to see the code split to allow multiple clients. The perl
"client" that I recently wrote
(http://mckeehan.homeip.net/amateurradio/APRS/aprstracker.htm) has to
create/decode all of the packets individually; this would have been much
easier if Xastir had a core that the clients could talk to - especially if
that core had a perl object interface associated with it.

This would probably make Xastir a little more complex - especially for the
windows crowd that are unfamiliar with the concept of a core daemon with
multiple clients. I run Xastir on both Linux and Windows.

You may investigate the plug-in method that UI-View uses, if Xastir is split
up, it may be able to have something similar.

Just my 2 cents.

On Sat, January 1, 2005 8:41 pm, Curt Mills said:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Tom Russo wrote:
>
>> There's a licensing fee for the native windows Qt, but the source version
>> for X11 is free.  AFAIK the windows license is a license for the libraries
>> and
>> gui builder.
>
> Ok, any of the development team would have to pay if they wanted to
> change the GUI, and every single Windows user would have to pay as
> well?
>
>
>> I have only toyed with Qt --- in the sense that I installed it, ran through
>> a tutorial and generated a simple app, and own the book that the authors
>> recommend for folks who want to work with it.  it has a pretty cool GUI
>> builder tool that you use to generate the code for your UI components, and
>> hook your code into that.  It seems a great deal easier to deal with than
>> others I've looked into.
>
> We've discussed in the past the option of splitting up the existing
> code so that we had a data storage piece (eventually turning into an
> SQL database perhaps?), a long-running daemon that talked to the
> interfaces/data storage, and multiple user interface pieces.
> Something like:
>
>
> CORE:
> -----
>     xastird (interface daemon)
>         xastird-config (GUI or text)
>
>     xastirDS (data store daemon)
>         xastirDS-config (GUI or text)
>         xastirDS-map-import (GUI or text)
>         xastirDS-map-export (GUI or text)
>
> CLIENTS:
> --------
>     xastirMsg (GUI or text) bulletins, messages, group messages
>     xastirMap (GUI)
>
>
> If only the client programs needed to have compiled GUI's and the
> core daemons and config programs could get by with text or perhaps
> Perl/Tk config programs, we could bypass the licensing issues,
> letting the individual client authors tackle those.  In fact, more
> than one type of each client could be created, taking advantage of
> whatever widget sets are better for each environment.
>
> I think that's a rough summary of what we've discussed in the past.
>
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