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Tue, 27 March 2007 09:40

WebChaot
Messages: 53
Registered: September 2006
Location: Austria, Vienna

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Hi all!

Currently I need to implement some windows specific gui things, like outlook 2003 or 2007 style, a navigation bar known from outlook and something else.

Therefore I need to edit directly the widget codes and enhance them for my needs.

Am I right, when I say, its nearly impossible to update to a newer release, when I made these changes - or to redo all these changes on every update?

I only want to be sure, that this is right. Then I will have to choose a stable version (the last one?) and stay with this for some time.

Ultimate++ is a very good platform. It makes small and fast code and (for a formerly delphi programmer Wink

its the best platform to switch to c and use the cross platform possibilities.

On the other hand (as you wrote somewhere in this forum), the widgets are only raw modules which have to be adapted for specific use. Which means - all widgets, which are not standard have to be coded by myself.

Thats not the problem (ok - for me it's a problem, because I'm not the "native" c-programmer - but its possible), but then you can't update to newer version without reimplement all the changes done before.

I dont know, how large the community is, but maybe it would make sense to develop some more sophisticated widgets and styles. From your point of view, office look, a navigation bar or dockable toolbars are not "standard" widgets - but for windows developers this is (a forced) standard. Sad

Or in other words. I want to develop a client which runs under some platforms. This is quite easy with ultimate. But a windows client nowadays needs to be "blue" and office styled and have to offer all the useful widgets the users are used to find (navbar, planner widget, ...).

I think, this is a major drawback, why ulitmate is not so much in use as it could be. I think, some users are spoiled from other development platforms (me too Smile

and they expect a little bit more to switch to ultimate for their future projects.

Im interested, what others say about this topic.

WebChaot.

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