I’m looking to write a simple program which can run both on Win XP SP3 (ideally without added dependencies, if it all possible) and modern Linux. Really, it should be platform agnostic but XP and Linux are what I’m specifically interested in.
The program will be for managing my cd-keys for my XP games. It’ll have a simple gui with a search box and an output box. It’ll parse text files in it’s subdir when searching via search box and output the cd-key string contained within.
From what I can see, it would be good/viable to use C++ so it runs on XP and Linux and use gtkmm3 for the UI for the same reason.
Does this make sense or am I missing something glaringly obvious? Any input would be much appreciated~
rust and tauri/dioxus, possibly egui?
Why not write a web app ? Supermium is modern chromium for xp and will work.
Just stick to vanilla web technologies and it should be fine.
I want it to work offline as I don’t want to connect my XP machines to the internet.
You can run your own web server and keep it offline.
I’m not familiar with GUI development on XP, but could you accomplish this with a script that you run in the terminal? That might be easier than dealing with a GUI that needs to work on both old and modern systems.
You could alias it to a command like
getGameKey your_search_queryon both to keep the usage the same. You may need a slightly different command for each one (usingfind+grepon Linux, some Windows command line equivalent on XP)Thanks heaps for the idea. I could definitely do it on Linux via a script and it looks like XP has findstr.
It shouldn’t require parsing text files intelligently either. If each line is [Game Name] - [CD-Key], it can just spit the whole line out.
Step 1. Install Steam Step 2. Open Steam Step 3. Use the menus to import a game, insert Key.
Steam does this.
It’s to manage cd-keys for my physical games.
