- From: Geoff McLane <ubuntu@geoffair.info>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:11:06 +0200
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
Hi Steve, Thanks for your words about Tidy... we hope you continue to find it useful... in a cross-platform way... Concerning a Tidy GUI app, I know of **no** 'official' efforts to do this by this HTACG group... A few years back now I pushed my own minimal efforts to a repo, and added some 'research' into other GUI efforts I found... see - https://github.com/geoffmcl/tidy-gui2#history - and would certainly appreciate an update of all the links, and maybe add more, others, that I missed... But I stopped about version Tidy 5.3.9, circa Aug 2016, while the current Tidy `next` is upward of 5.5.12, circa Mar 2017... lots of steps forward... The problem is always using a cross-platform 'framework' to provide the GUI windows - I chose Qt for this, specifically Qt4 - but that is quite a **big** package to install, a big dependence, and there is now a Qt5... but there other choices for this... The next thing is to keep the GUI up-to-date with the changing Tidy options. Again I tried to automate this, but sort of ran out of steam... but it mostly works, with some help from a perl script, to auto-generate code... It is a tough job to generate all the Qt code to establish all the options, and maybe I took this too far, especially since we can edit and use a 'config' file... And then regarding the Qt DLL dependence... such a GUI should have a full 'installer', at least for Windows... If you, or others, want to push these GUI efforts forward, then I would help where I can... thanks... Regards, Geoff.
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