Re: Imagine something simple . . .
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:49 am
Welcome astu!astu wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:00 am As open source, the possibility is limitless.
Yes, maybe it is still a "cheap copy" of the LC9 community version. But it will evolve with time.
To discuss now if you should stay with an outdated community version or if you should do the work to make a phoenix out of it and develop something new out of it is as unnecessary as a pimple on your butt.
LC has shot down the OpenSource version only recently. For the fact that you are already working on an OpenXTalk based on this version, you are on the right way. And if that gets around, then OpenXTalk can also become something. One should not underestimate the OpenSource community. It starts slowly there, but once it has taken off, then it can become a high-flyer.
I agree, some open source projects linger around as zombies for a long time and then all of the sudden the right person gets involved and it bursts back into heavily active development! But there is already a LOT that can be done to enhance LCC 9.6.3 as it is!
One functionality I would like to add to OXT on all platforms, that is available in the commercial versions but never in the Community versions is A PDF Widget. We can wrap the same PDFium lib that's they wrapped for the Indy version. I can't imagine it's much more complicated than wrapping Apple's PDFKit as a Widget/Library (which I've already done). PDFium is open-source a spin-off from Chromium. There's a few others FOSS PS/PDF libraries, one in particular that I'd like to look at, that's based on GhostScript and supports things like Overprint inks inside a PDF (something Apple's PDF kit doesn't support).
Personally, I'm open to just about anything xTalk, even if it's some entirely different xTalk engine running in Web.0.x JS interpreter in a browser window, it doesn't really matter to me if you call it a stack window or a browser window.