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I have a rather large MFC based program. I have been tasked to get it running on Linux. I have explained that this will require a re-write of the program either into straight C++ with STL (more work), or into Qt/C++ (less work). I am now told that I need to write wrappers to get every MFC class working in Linux and use preprocessor directives to only compile what is needed in either Linux or Windows. I explained that we are having a communication disconnect and that I believed this to be more work than rewriting the entire project from scratch (which I would not have to do to convert to Qt).

This is necessary to enable the use of OpenGL library in the WxWidgets frames. Save the file and build wxWidgets (The default project compiles with just some warnings about deprecated functions. Here it takes about 3 minutes to build). WxWidgets maintains a database of standard RGB colours for a predefined set of named colours. This class implements a Unicode to/from multibyte converter capable. Visual C/C++ (6.0) wxWidgets AppWizard v.1.0 Visual C/C++ (6.0) wxWidgets AppWizard for making an empty project with all paths set by the AppWizard. The AppWizard automatically sets wxWidgets libraries, preprocessor defines and linker/compiler settings. WxWidgets is a framework very much similar to MFC, except for a few negative points of its own. Those MFC programmers who are aware of the growing number of Linux users and who want to write cross platform GUI applications can use wxWidgets.

Any good arguments out there to help explain this issue? Am I wrong?

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If you don't want a full rewrite, you could try compiling against Winelib. Most things should just work and then since you have the source, you can work around the parts that don't.

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The obvious solution is to run the code unchanged and un-recompiled on WINE.

A simple (kludgy) solution is to run an entire Windows VM on the Linux system, and deploy the application as a virtual hard-drive, but that will require a Windows license and is little different than simply connecting a Windows system to a Linux network.

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If you must re-write, wxWidgets would be more familiar to an MFC developer than Qt perhaps.

Here is an article on porting MFC apps to Linux that considers the use GTK+, Qt and wxWidgets. It also discusses why you should consider and try WINE before any of those options. The author talks about future articles on the subject, but appears to have written nothing further since 2004.

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The sources for MFC and ATL total to over 500000 lines of code, and most of the functionality of this code is actually provided by the Windows API itself. How many lines of code can you write in a day? The scale of what you are being asked to do is simply impractical, even if you're only implementing a small subset of MFC.

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Hi all,

I want to make my own widgets in c++, but don't know where to start. I didn't find any
examples, tutorials,... on google. I know there are some toolkits like qt, gtk+, wxwidgets, and i've used them already, but i want to make some myself. Qt says to use the widgets that are available on the platform, so i have to write my code for every platform specific, that's not a problem.

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Any ideas where to start?

regards, hannesvdc

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You will first have to figure out what your widget needs to do then program it using very low-level GUI functions, on *nix using something like X11R6 or MS-Windows use win32 api graphics functions. This is not an easy task and not for the unexperienced. On MS-Windows it isn't as difficult as on *nix because you can write your own ActiveX control that contains all the code for the new widget. Using VC++ 2010 Pro you can create an ActiveX control is a matter of just a few clicks of the mouse, the compiler will generate all the startup code for you.

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