Post date: Jan 06, 2011 4:19:21 PM
Thought it would be a good idea to code in Qt C++ for the next phase. The rationale would be that Qt supports Maemo, Symbian and the fledgling Meego. So very gung ho, started on recoding everything in C++. First snag, no Totem Playlist Parser! Or at least I haven't found a Totem Playlist Parser for Qt yet and I HAVE been asking. The problem is it needs to be used for Symbian too so the only solution would be for me to rewrite the whole in Qt C++. Started out on this but half way through, I realize that Totem Playlist Parser needs lots of glib, gtk, gio etc etc.. That means for me to write the program in C++, I would need to write the equivalent of the glib, gtk, gio routines used. Either that or I would need to almost like rewrite the Parser in C++. By itself, this is a major undertaking but I don't know which is worse, rewriting the glib, gtk, gio supporting routines and transcoding to C++ or just writing a new parser in C++. After about two weeks on the former, I'm beginning to suspect the latter is probably easier. The con here is that I will lose out on all the valuable debugging that Totem Playlist Parser has gone through to reach the stability and dependability it has reached now. So what do I do now? Cut losses and go to Java or C#? If I spend the effort to rewrite the parser and the player itself, at the very least there is a large market out there and getting larger. I am not very up to date with Meego but I have yet to hear of a mass market Meego smartphone and if Nokia plans to make a splash, it has to hit the Easter season. No news yet. Or maybe I can do Windows Phone! .... need to find if it has a playlist parser .... like the title says, Darn .....