Lynn,<br>
I tried to do the whole
Windows-build idea with MinGW and things have not been going
well. So far the best I can get is a version of gcc that always
complains that I do not have any files supplied on the command line,
even when I do have them supplied or am just asking it for a version
number. My successes with <span style="font-style: italic;">any</span>
type of wxWidgets-related build in VC6.0 is slightly greater, but I can
never build anything other than the supplied demos because things die
with a linker complaint. I now have some ideas and leads on what
to work out with that, but no guarantees yet.<br>
<br>
As to the problem with using
wxMozilla verse wxHTML - wxHTML has no support for CSS of any level and
didn't seem to do colors well, either. I saw some talk on the wx
lists about moving to wxMozilla to replace wxHTML, but I don't know
whether anything is coming of that. It's a shame that the
download is that huge for Windows, as it's only a tiny fraction of that
to download the sources (500K). Primarily I was looking for using
the wxMozilla widget because it is significantly faster than wxHTML
(wxMozilla loaded at test HTML page of 15 megs in about 3-5 seconds on
a fast machine while wxHTML took around 12 minutes to open the same
file) and because it has support for CSS, which, in my opinion, is
necessary if any move is to be made towards using external CSS or even
some form of internal CSS for display formatting with either ThML or
OSIS (there was a post somewhere on the list a few weeks back
concerning external CSS and OSIS in Sword).<br>
<br>
I think I will return to my
attempts to build wxSword under either MinGW or Visual C++ after I
complete one of the coding tasks I have tackled in wxSword.
What's your opinion on the wxHTML/wxMozilla comparison?<br>
<br>
--Greg<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lynn Allan</b> <<a href="mailto:l_d_allan@adelphia.net">l_d_allan@adelphia.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Greg,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ok, I'm subscribed to the wxSword
list.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Two questions:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* Would it be possible to build an executable for
Windows so we could actually see what it looks like and what it does? My
understanding is that you are a Linux developer.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* Is it essential to use wxMozilla rather than the
widgets that wxWidgets supplies? wxMozilla is a 25 meg download, and its
use complicates trying to build the project.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I've used wxWidgets in a separate project for the
"Audacity CleanSpeech" sermon editor. wxWidgets is big and complicated by
itself, and not trivial to build. I write this in ignorance of what you are
trying to do, but I can hardly comprehend that wxMozilla is
necessary.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for what you are doing to develop
wxSword</font></div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="q">
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="greg.hellings@gmail.com" href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Greg
Hellings</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="sword-devel@crosswire.org" href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
SWORD Developers' Collaboration
Forum</a> </div></span><span class="q">
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 03, 2005 7:55 PM
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [sword-devel] New, young,
front-end</div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><br></div>What's going on with the error
in al_num I can answer quickly. It should, though, be moved to a board
on SF instead. </span></blockquote>
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