16 Mar 2009

Zenses - a new direction

I’ve spent the past few nights looking into the different GUI frameworks to use for the new version of Zenses. The plan was to create the interface using QT4.5 but after much thought I have decided to use Mozilla’s XULRunner. Mainly because the QT documentation annoys me (even more than Adobe’s), and I find the interfaces it produces are quite unattractive compared to that of XULRunner (Firefox, Songbird).

Either way after a few nights of figuring out the Mozilla build system, everything is now ready for development. The framework for the application has been built and successfully compiles with the Mozilla build system! You can find the source and track development over at github (http://github.com/sixones/zenses/tree/master), there isn’t much to see at the moment hopefully things will move quickly though.

I will still be updating my blog with information of alpha and beta builds, as well as any other bits.