Ok. Thanks for the responses.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Michael Stahl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07.03.2017 12:50, ThatRM Z wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have been looking around for GUI/widget toolkits that I can use to > > develop a standalone cross-platform desktop application for UML > diagramming. > > > > I feel like I can use VCL - the way different LO apps use it for their > GUI. > > that sounds like a really bad idea. > > > But I am wondering how heavy this would get for a new standalone > > application? > > Is there a "bare minimum" example app that builds in all of the VCL as a > > starting point? > > > > Would this "backendtest" be the answer I am looking for !? > > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/backendtest > > > > And would anyone be able to tell me which other LO components or > > libraries I would need to bring into a project like this? > > there is no obvious answer to this, other than "a lot more than you want > to have". > > VCL is not intended to be used outside of OOo-lineage office > applications, depends on lots of things that most applications don't > need (e.g. URE), has no stable API, and features will be removed from > VCL as and when LO doesn't need them any more. > > just use some toolkit that was actually designed to be reusable, like > GTK+, Qt, Tk, WxWhatsitsname, etc. > >
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