[Gambas-devel] About alternative graphical component

[Rob]

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 18:20, Jean-Francois Perreault wrote:
> what I
> meant is to remake the gb.qt so it can directly use the win32
> api , nothing left from QT in this , the only thing that

You'd really be implementing a different component altogether 
regardless, even if you name it the same thing.... the Qt API 
and the various Windows API's are quite, quite different and 
vastly incompatible.  Now, the idea with gambas' GUI components 
is that the gb.qt, gb.gtk and gb.whatever GUI components will 
all be mostly drop-in compatible, with the platform-dependent 
functionality existing in subcomponents like gb.qt.ext is now.  
So it may be that Benoit already has in mind what you're asking, 
and it'll just be implemented in a somewhat different way.

That said, the GPL'ed native Windows Qt version has made a lot of 
progress in the last year so you could literally get your wish 
before you know it.  Gambas isn't yet to the point where it runs 
under cygwin though (it just compiles) so it will be a while 
before a fully native Windows version is possible.

Rob