Please: Make new release w/ animconvertwin.h changes.

[zturtleman]

Please: Make new release w/ animconvertwin.h changes.

[zturtleman]

I can't easily build for Maverick for Windows at the moment due to a PC failure (or just too lazy to get Qt for Windows set up with current temporary PC). The Qt Windows installer takes ~40 GB so I don't blame you for not wanting it. I'll hopefully make a new Maverick release by the end of the year.

Image of animconvertwin dialog: Columns 2/3 are editable and clicking them automatically selects all the text. Column 3 has up/down buttons at right side when it is selected (printscreen deselects it...).

[m-7761]

Thanks. Here (https://sourceforge.net/projects/daedalus-3d/) is a project URL I reserved just now. I will be working on this for hundreds of hours most likely. So when I'm done I will pass along a rewritten version if you're interested in dispensing with Qt. It's actually an interesting exercise since I wouldn't want to use Qt (I've done a lot of preliminary research going into this project) but by virtue of porting Qt code I'm getting exposure to Qt. Between working with it and wxWidgets it's insightful into cross-platform development, which is something new to me.

EDITED: To be blunt, I think the rewritten code might well compress down to a small fraction of the existing code. So in theory it should be of interest to improving on MM3D. But I know that the trend for open-source code is to treat it more like hospice than a way to actually develop life-improving software.

[m-7761]

P.S. Maybe you have a new #include "animconvertwin.base.h" file handy? I figured out on day 1 that these base.h files are derived from the qtui folder's ui files. I could not find Windows resources on the Qt company website, but I realized Cygwin must have a package with its uic compiler inside. I'm not using the MM3D program as reference, though I usually am hunting down the relevant screen to see it. On the other hand the base.h files don't offer much information either (despite their ample code) but they help a little.

Below is a script for converting the ui files. I might try to build it with Cygwin, I don't know. But I think it can be done with a lot less than 40GB. From the looks of Qt it's a monster, and not a well designed one at that. It seems to want its own IDE and the works. I was surprised to learn that KDE uses Qt exclusively for its native applications. wxWidgets has a budding project to wrap itself around Qt, that might be an option for KDE if its users expect to have Qt or bust.

for file in `ls *.ui` 
do
	~/uic -o ${file%%.*}.base.h ${file} 
done

[m-7761]

Related bug: AnimSetWin::convertClicked() doesn't reset its list after using AnimConvertWin.

EDITED: Seems this is the only way to access it.

EDITED: Never mind... I think... I think the old animations aren't deleted by convertAnimToFrame. Sorry.

[zturtleman]

Qt 5.10 taking 40 GB was due to the Windows installer not asking what platforms/targets and installing 14 different ones (mingw.org, MSVC versions, android versions, etc). I don't know if they have improved this.

.base.h files generated by Qt uic 5.7.1 on Debian Stretch from mm3d f0208fc: allyourbase.zip