Tools Used To Create Plucker Desktop

Plucker Desktop was built with free software. The latest sourcecode for Plucker Desktop can be downloaded from http://www.plkr.org.

The Plucker Desktop application was written in C++, using the wxWindows cross-platform toolkit. Information about wxWindows is available from www.wxwindows.org.

HTML editor employs the wxStyledTextCtrl library, written by Robin Dunn (robin@alldunn.com) which wraps the Scintilla edit control (www.scintilla.org).

XML resources run using the XMLRC resource library written by Vaclav Slavik (v.slavik@volny.cz).

Internationalization is performed through:

• GNU Gettext Utilities www.gnu.org/software/gettext
• xrcedit (xml string extraction) www.wxwindows.org
• poEdit (visual translation) poedit.sf.net

Source code editing was with:

• nedit www.nedit.org
• vim www.vim.org
• DevC++ www.bloodshed.net

Images created with:

• GIMP www.gimp.org

Compilation on the various platforms was with:

• GNU C Compiler www.gnu.org/software/gcc
• Apple Developer Tools www.apple.com
• Redhat/Cygnus Cygwin www.redhat.com
• Borland Free C++ Commandline Compiler 5.5 www.borland.com

Debugging was with:

• GDB www.gnu.org/software/gdb
• DDD www.gnu.org/software/ddd
• DebugView www.sysinternals.com

Installers for the various platforms created with:

• InnoSetup www.innosetup.com
• ISTool www.bhenden.org/istool

Documentation created and managed with:

• Tex2RTF (Online help) www.wxwindows.org/tex2rtf
• Doxygen (Source code documentation) www.doxygen.org