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by winter_blue 1262 days ago
Is LogViewPlus heavily tied to Windows? How hard would a port to Linux be?

I love that so many Windows tools get a nice-looking GUI, versus a heavy CUI lean to *nix tools.

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As things currently stand - hard. LogViewPlus is written in .Net using WinForms, so it is heavily tied to Windows. However, Microsoft is evolving. The bulk of the code can now be made to be cross-platform easily, but the front-end remains a problem.

I would love to do a Linux port as soon as there is a viable cross-platform GUI technology with strong 3rd party vendor support. The controls in LogViewPlus are very rich.