Road to Cross-platform

[DSPaul]

Analysis of the workload and feasibility of switching from WPF to AvaloniaUI, to make COMPASS work on Linux and Mac.

• [ ] Replace all windows-only code
  • [x] Adopt Mvvm toolkit (for commands and property changed events)
  • [ ] Replace Attached Properties with styled properties
  • [ ] Replace Auto update will alternative package or write from scratch (more research needed)
  • [ ] Replace Drag and drop with cross platform alternative (more research needed)
  • [x] Replace messagebox with cross platform alternative or write from scratch (more research needed)
  • [ ] Changes required to ISBN barcode scanner
  • [x] Replace DotNetZip with SharpCompress
  • [ ] Managing unhandled exceptions works differently
  • [ ] Cross platform keyboard shortcuts
  • [ ] File system interactions (save, load, ect.)
  • [ ] File dialogs (select file/folder, ect.)
  • [ ] Windows management (minimize, maximize, ect.)
  • [x] User preferences
  • [ ] Replace MsTest with NUnit
• [ ] Rewrite UI in Avalonia
  • [ ] Find different way to get Icons
  • [ ] Find different way of rendering gifs for loading animation
  • [ ] Find alternative for some controls like 5 star rating, multi select combobox, virtualizing stackpanel, ect.
  • [ ] Redo all styling
  • [ ] Redo templates
• [ ] Make cross platform installer/release pipeline