[VCDImager-GUI-devel] status updated;

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

in addition to the already mentioned projects in my last post to this
list, the java based GUI and the python based GUI, there are a few other
projects aiming to provide a GUI to the vcdimager xml interface:

GUI projects so far (the 2 already mentioned ones first):

? - java based
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state: developers are organizing, CVS repository to get online soon,
  officially supported since GPL'ed

? - python/gtk based
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state: two developers are going to put something together and will report
  back when they have something to show

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VCDImagerGUI - C++/win32 based
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state: public domain w/ source available, discontinued
features: just the features vcdimager 0.6.2 allowed, no XML and no PBC
URL: http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcdimagergui.htm

VCD2XML - ?
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state: available, no source, little news lately
features: simple XML generator GUI for creating common intro/menu/tracks
  template
URL: http://home.cinci.rr.com/mhill/vcd2xml.jpg

VCDImager Easy - delphi based
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state: available, no source due to use of proprietary library, may be
  reimplemented in order to make source available
features: vcdxgen based generation of XML for all command-line settable
  parameters, migrating towards creating XML data w/o vcdxgen
URL: http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcdimagereasy.htm

TSCV - delphi based
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state: available, no source (reason unknown)
features: XML based generation of chapters, setting options,
  intro/main-menu/main tracks PBC template...
URL: http://www.ttool.de/anleitungen/tscve.htm


well that's so far the list of known GUIs; most developers should be
subscribed to this list by now;

It's surely not a good thing if we end up with several GUIs all doing
just a subset of the full potential of vcdimager...

IMHO those GUIs which share the same development environment should try to
unite forces instead of wasting energy competing with each other; actually
this concerns only the two delphi based ones, but another java based GUI
project was mentioned in this list, which might create a similiar
situation...

summarizing, we have 3 GUI groups (not counting the abandoned ones),

*) the delphi based one which is available already (!), but for win32 only

*) the java based project with has no release ready so far

*) the python based project, like the java based one no rls so far

that's all for now...
regards,
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