[Gambas-devel] About alternative graphical component

Benoit Minisini gambas at ...1...
Mon Dec 29 11:56:51 CET 2003


On Monday 29 December 2003 12:30, danielcampos at ...45... wrote:
> Hi:
>
>  These days we have talk a little about GTK+ component, as an
> "alternative" graphical component to QT one. There has been
> also some work on Cygwin-Windows version.
>
>  If may be one of the goals in the future is to have a Linux-Windows-
> FreeBSD-Solaris Gambas, we should think that:
>
> - QT libraries for Win probably will be never released under GPL, as
> TrollTech doesn't seem to like it. - GTK+ for Windows, is unstable, and has
> few support by GTK/Gnome comunity.
>
>  Why not work on a WxWindows (http://www.wxwindows.org/) component? It is
> just what we need to have a cross-platform graphical library. it
> internally, uses GTK+ uder UNIX and native libraries under Windows.
>
>  May be it should be remarked as a point for Gambas future. What do you
> think about that?
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel Campos
>
>

This will be technically possible if wxWindows allow us accessing the 
low-level of widget management. I will take a glance at the doc to see if it 
is possible.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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