| > The list should resize to the window, to ensure that
> WinHTTrack is useful as a resizable window. I think that
> these changes would offer the user much more functionality
> while making the display simpler, more professional-
looking,
> and easier to read/use.
> What do you think?
Well, I have been thinking about this issue for a while -
but unfortunately I am neither a designer (you should
remember the original httrack.com design before Leto
changed it :) ), nor a Windows GUI expert, and such things
are really complicated for me. The current WinHTTrack GUI
is really messy and dirty, with hacked MFC classes
everywhere, and implementing a nicer interface would mean
to break everything and rewrite the interface from scratch
in Visual C++ - which is not the best language for doing
such things. I am in parallel very busy in other
developments (including Unix/Linux developments for the
company i work for) and I will not have the time do make
such a big development.
The best solution IMHO would be to rewrite an interface
using Kylix/C++ (Borland), which has the advantage to be
really easy for designing interfaces, and can be even
compatible with Linux systems ; and then connecting this
interface to the engine library DLL which already exports
the necessary functions. Or even some VB interface, as VB
seems to be a typical language for GUI things.
However, even with this environment, I won't have the time
anyway.
But I am ready to help anyone wanting to start such
developmment, which would be a great thing for HTTrack, as
the current interface is really, *REALLY* ugly - I totally
agree with this judgement.
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