<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellent - and about time too! This will encourage many more users of Therion.<br>
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From: Rodrigo Severo via Therion <therion@speleo.sk><br>
To: therion <therion@speleo.sk><br>
Cc: rsev@protonmail.com<br>
Sent: Sun, Nov 14, 2021 11:42 pm<br>
Subject: [Therion] Presenting Mapiah, a multi-platform, more friendly, modern and performant graphical interface for Therion<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Mapiah is my take on a multi-platform, more friendly, modern and performant graphical interface for Therion. It's written in C++/Qt. It aims to be as compatible as practical and possible with XTherion.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This is the "proof-of-concept" release.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It's source code and it's releases files can be found at the projects home at SourceForge: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mapiah/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/mapiah/</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Please let me know what you think about it, if it has any future, if you want to help.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">*The name*<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Mapiah is a international friendly version of the portuguese word "mapear" on the sentence "vamos mapear?" - "let's go surveying?" or "let's go mapping?" - which is usually pronounced [vʌmu mapi'a].<br>
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<div dir="ltr">*Multi-platform*<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Right now we have both Linux and Windows releases as these are the OSs I have access and minimal experience with. Until some Mac user steps up, that's the way it's gonna be.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Having said that, the idea is to follow best practices during Mapiah's development to ease the release process on all target platforms: Linux, Windows and Mac.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">*The C++/Qt choices*<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Going backwards, the Qt framework was chosen as it has an open source compatible version. It's mature, powerful and seems to take multi-platform support seriously.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The first idea was to use Qt Python as the "friendly" requirement could also be applied to the language chosen but in the end I decided to go with C++ because I believe that a C++ application might be more easily distributable across all platforms.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">*The "proof-of-concept" release*<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The basic reading and writing functionality supposely is th concept being proved in this release. Supposely because the actual concept I am trying to prove myself with this release is that I can write functional and decent C++/Qt code which, for the time being, is kinda proved.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">*Functionality*<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This 0.0.1 release can read a TH2 file, present it on the screen and save it.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">With an open file you can change the zoom level and write the file again.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">You should be able to see your TH2 file on screen correctly and the saved file should be functionally identical to the original one.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">All point, line, area, scrap and XTHERION options should be properly read and saved even if most aren't actually understood/acted upon.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">*License*<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This software is licensed under GPL 3 or later.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">*WARNINGS*<br>
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<div dir="ltr">PLEASE TEST!<br>
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<div dir="ltr">DON'T OVERRIDE YOUR ORIGINAL FILE WITH THE ONE WRITTEN BY MAPIAH!!<br>
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<div dir="ltr">THIS IS A PRE-ALPHA VERSION!!!<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Rodrigo Severo<br>
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