[crossfire] Re: Crossedit patches

[Mark Wedel]

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      Personally I prefer the java editor's interface, though issues with java have
     
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      caused me very major headaches (i.e. on one 2GHZ computer it runs unuseably slow
     
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      for no apparent reason, whereas it runs perfectly fine on a very similarly set
     
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      up 400MHZ computer). In the past I have been considering trying to write an
     
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      editor in python using pygtk (GTK2). I'm currently thinking that it may not be
     
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      the best place to spend resources compared to working on the main server and
     
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      client, however it would make an improvement in my opinion. I personally think
     
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      that the best ways to go about making a new editor would be with useing
     
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      python/pygtk and packing existing C loading code and such into a C extension for
     
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      python, or making one in C/GTK2.
     
     
  I haven't played much with python/pygtk.

  But with c/gtk2, one could use glade to pretty quickly do all the layout design.

  However, I still think it would be better to put work into improving the java 
editor vs writing a new one.