Launcher Project?

[seodavid]

Hope it's ok to post this here,

Im intrested in doing more with C++, and thought a project that would be good to do would be to create a game "Launcher" that can run on M$ aswell as Linux/mac (Linux via wine possibly, or natively) im not sure about mac, not a mac user.

Whats required to make a app that can pull in a website url into the app as per set in a file before compile, with possible other features.

This came about from people using official games on linux boxes, that want a reliable launcher.

Anyone intrested in helping?

(Code would be opensource)

[freghar]

I just would like to recommend you a gtkmm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtkmm , http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/) API for the GUI. It's a good start.

[seodavid]

Looks intresting:)

I will have a read thanks.

[painejake]

I know next to no C++ but id love to help where i can in the gfx department maybe and learn so C++ too on the way

[DasBlub]

for gui you could use wxWidgets, this is platform independent and it ships also functionalities for networking and multithreading and stuff like that.

have a look at this: http://wxwidgets.org/

[seodavid]

Ok, thanks for input. Will sort a SVN or git.

Probably be either Sourceforge or github.

[painejake]

HG's quite nice over at bitbucket.org but i dont mind which one

[freghar]

HG's quite nice over at bitbucket.org but i dont mind which one

I agree, HG lacks some advanced abilities of Git, but it's a nice and easy-to-use "expansion" to the SVN.

[seodavid]

As I have mostly used SourceForge, I set up a project there:

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Your project is placed in a Pending state until the SourceForge.net staff is able to review and approve your project request. The approval process may take 1 to 3 business days.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/glauncher/

If people want to help with this, please let me know, going to need some help.

[painejake]

Ill help out where i can Will be a very nice way of learning C++ and starting from there

[seodavid]

They have activated the project:

svn:

svn co https://glauncher.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/glauncher/trunk/ glauncher

Wiki:

http://www.wiki.iguardians.co.uk/index.php?title=Internet_Guardians_GLauncher_Project

If there are people with some good skills in C++/wxwidgets/ intrested, please contact me.

[Patman128]

If you want to make it work on Mac OS X, then you'll need to make it in Objective-C (Cocoa) and you'll need to find someone with a Mac to compile it. If you are interested in learning, it's not hard, especially since you get a nice GUI editor.

[painejake]

Well we i can compile it on the macs at work oif we have any working :lol:

[seodavid]

First support will have to be windows/linux really.

Could then be ported to mac.

Anyone with some programing experience able to lend a hand?

[casalla]

contact me using any messeenger, i have a working launcher in c++ for vc++ 6. its simple to get this working under linux (linux apps normally run under mac, too!).

ICQ: 317237863

MSN: [email protected]

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1. :rolleyes:

2. :eek:

:lol:

Have Phun!

[seodavid]

Launcher webpage section created

Screenshot here:

Template file for this is inside svn, now its the case of creating the first bit of the launcher (loads the launcher page into the launcher)

Website demo of the launcher here:

http://launcher.iguardians.co.uk/

[painejake]

contact me using any messeenger, i have a working launcher in c++ for vc++ 6. its simple to get this working under linux (linux apps normally run under mac, too!).

ICQ: 317237863

MSN: [email protected]

GoogleMessanger (JABBER): [email protected]

AIM: OLBITHEBEST

YAHOO: olbi_is_the_best

1. :rolleyes:

2. :eek:

:lol:

Have Phun!

Not if its VC++ it wont as you most likely used .net

[DasBlub]

what i'm waiting for is a little concept with a timemanagement until when you wanna have finished what and who will work on it.

[painejake]

Why not code it in java to avoid any cross platform conflicts?

[DasBlub]

Why not code it in java to avoid any cross platform conflicts?

Im intrested in doing more with C++

he does this to learn c++

and btw i hate java (not to be discussed here, neither related to this topic nor to this forum )

[Garbaek]

a cool util for linux is http://expect.nist.gov (works great with telnet/bash and such)

that's also worth having a look at I think