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
  • Adopt Mvvm toolkit (for commands and property changed events)
  • Replace Attached Properties with styled properties
  • Replace Auto update with velopack
  • Replace Drag and drop with cross platform alternative (more research needed)
  • Replace messagebox with cross platform alternative or write from scratch (more research needed)
  • Changes required to ISBN barcode scanner
  • 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.)
  • 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