Re: New pbem system

From: jmccann@eskimo.com (James McCann)

Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:42:04 +0000

lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) wrote in message news:<9lu77q$920$1@feed.textport.net>...
> In article <9lu45b$ten$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>,
> James McCann <jmccann@eskimo.com> wrote:

SNIP

> o  Galaxy clients (maybe some use XML, maybe some
>    are cross platform.)
> o  "boardgame assistant" programs (12 are listed at
>    http://grognard.com/pbem.html)
> o  Richard Rognlie's abstract game server (uses email
>    for transport)

I have looked at most of the "assistant" programs, I will check out
the others you mention.

>
> >I plan to write a platform -neutral protocol library and use
> >SDL for graphics so that all of the code except the GUI is cross-platform.
>
> You might manage a cross platform GUI as well: Perl/TK or Java. Does
> anyone know of an example?
>

I have considered using one called wxWindows, used by Jet, one of the
assistant programs.  I am not sure that I want to introduce too many
dependencies on libraries people may not have.  I guess I can always
provide a statically linked binary.  Perl certainly has some
attractiveness for the transport part, but I sure think Tk is ugly.

James

References

New pbem system
jmccann@eskimo.com (James McCann)
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:01:31 +0000
Re: New pbem system
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:54:02 +0000