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V18 Switch to Qt #158

Open michael-manley opened 2 years ago

michael-manley commented 2 years ago

V18 other than bug fixes will also make a switch to Qt, as WxWidgets is causing me to pull my hair out. This will also mean that the SDL separation code will happen in V18 also.

I will also change API code to use the QT Plugin engine.

The first steps will be separating SDL Code from WxWidgets, and putting WxWidgets as a deprecated GUI.

Add a -DPCEM_GUI_MODE with the following options, SDL, WxWidgets, Qt SDL will be raw SDL, with no GUI mode, this is the first model to be implemented and will only work with a config file specified on the command line WxWidgets will be the current GUI. Qt will be the new GUI

I was pushing off not doing this as Qt can be bloated, but since I really am just going to use QT Core and nothing else, should be fine.

Comments welcome. This will also allow the Android planned port to be sooner, possibly V19

unreal9010 commented 2 years ago

Great! I see my proposal from April wasn't a bad idea. Indeed, many of the current regressions are WxWidgets-related. Might help to reduce some of these.

michael-manley commented 2 years ago

I have noticed wxWidgets supports a Qt backend. I think for now I will use that backend to prep a slow migration over to Qt.