[Gambas-user] Webbrowser without gb.qt4??

[Tobias Boege]

On Mon, 09 Jun 2014, B Bruen wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 10:04:12 +0200
> "Wolfgang, dl7nb" <dl7nb at ...17...> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > To display a html-file I would need the webbrowser from qb.qt4.webkit. 
> > That would be no problem BUT:
> > 
> > My program grew of many month and is based on qb.gui (As it was a 
> > default when I started it)
> > 
> > If I drop gb.gui to use gb.qt4.webkit (and gb.qt4)I get different 
> > looking forms and  my program does no longer work.
> > 
> > Is there a way to display html files WITH gb.gui (in absence of qt4)?
> > 
> > Wolfgang
> > 
> 
> Sorry,I don't have an answer for you, merely a comment.
> 
> Without going into specifics, your comment "If I drop gb.gui to use gb.qt4.webkit (and gb.qt4)I get different looking forms and  my program does no longer work." rings like a similar bell here too.  We are currently changing all our gb.gui projects to gb.qt4 in order to alleviate user complaints about the gtk situation across various distros. So:
> 
> Has gui independence now become economically un-viable?
> 
> Any comments, especially from Benoit.
> 

At gambas-buch.de, one of the first concrete decisions was to solely use
gb.qt4. gb.gtk never really worked for me (I was with Gambas 2 on Ubuntu
8.04/9.04 with a Gnome desktop where it was buggy and after that on Arch
Linux with Trinity where Qt is just more canonical to use) and soon Hans
noticed unpleasant discrepancies with what I told his program does over
here (gb.gui/gb.qt4) and he had developed over there (gb.gui/gb.gtk).

Imagine people reading the book, trying the programs and noticing that
things actually don't quite work as described. (Talking about the problems
we had *back then*:) the programs usually did what they should but sometimes
there were issues like misplaced controls, wrong colours, methods not doing
something... That's just the mixture of working and non-working that would
make readers think: "oh, that's a weird book. Maybe I come back in two years
to see if it is any better".

Sadly, we failed to report this stuff back then... I was also quite new
around here at this time.

Don't know how much my comment's worth but you're not the only one to have
that thought.

Regards,
Tobi

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