Re: Use VCL to develop standalone applications

Ok.

Thanks for the responses.



On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07.03.2017 12:50, ThatRM Z wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have been looking around for GUI/widget toolkits that I can use to
> > develop a standalone cross-platform desktop application for UML
> diagramming.
> > I feel like I can use VCL - the way different LO apps use it for their
> GUI.
>
> that sounds like a really bad idea.
>
> > But I am wondering how heavy this would get for a new standalone
> > application?
> > Is there a "bare minimum" example app that builds in all of the VCL as a
> > starting point?
> >
> > Would this "backendtest" be the answer I am looking for !?
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/backendtest
> >
> > And would anyone be able to tell me which other LO components or
> > libraries I would need to bring into a project like this?
>
> there is no obvious answer to this, other than "a lot more than you want
> to have".
>
> VCL is not intended to be used outside of OOo-lineage office
> applications, depends on lots of things that most applications don't
> need (e.g. URE), has no stable API, and features will be removed from
> VCL as and when LO doesn't need them any more.
>
> just use some toolkit that was actually designed to be reusable, like
> GTK+, Qt, Tk, WxWhatsitsname, etc.