Re: [Easytag-mailing] easytag ported to win32 native!

[Xavier Degeneve <xav-easytag degeneve net>]

Yeah :-)

I will try some large test on my big database on 2 diferents host and 
environment with all the differents file namming and bad characters 
which are inside I hope it will be a good test database..

Xavier

Michael Pujos wrote:

> Xavier Degeneve a écrit :
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for this great achievement. I started the job (Mingw) 
> > some weeks ago :-) but due to lack of time I postponed it. See 
> > http://www.degeneve.net/dotclear/index.php/?q=easytag my post if it 
> > can help you if some issues remains. (French, but I can translate if 
> > you want).
>
>
> No need to translate, I'm french ;) ! I had pretty much all the issues 
> you had and got a little further:
>
> - gtk library location are automatically detected on startup (gaim code)
> - locale automatically detected (gaim code). can be overriden with 
> EASYTAGLANG
> - the home user directory is set to c:\Documents and 
> settings\user\application data
> - the audio player is autodetected by looking into the registry 
> (foobar and winamp for now)
> - launching the audio player works using CreateProcess()
>
> didn't know about _mkstemp ! going to use it
>
> > About Drive change (Windows world instead of Unix), may The GIMP port 
> > can help. I begin to browse the gimp source code and found some 
> > interesting good parts.
>
>
> I did that yesterday looking at GTK 2.6   gtkfilesystemwin32.c for 
> inspiration. wanted to use GtkFileSystem to see 2h later it was not 
> meant for public use..bummer!
> Most of the little bugs remaining are filesystem naming issues that 
> trigger the "unknown directory" popup. So most testing will be about 
> the filesystem and be sure that every functionality works.
> There's some work to be done with the directory input text if the user 
> type path with \  (inernally everything is done with / which is 
> compatible with win32 and unix)
>
> > If you need help, or at least beta test I can provide some support :-)
> No problem I will post test binaries later today !
>
>
> Michael