[Gambas-user] New web browser component and GTK+3 support

PICCORO McKAY Lenz mckaygerhard at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 04:23:56 CEST 2020


El mar., 20 de oct. de 2020 a la(s) 19:11, Benoît Minisini (g4mba5 at gmail.com)
escribió:

> An additional note: the IDE now uses the 'gb.gui' component, so you will
> automatically get the 'gb.gtk3' version if you run it on something else
> than KDE.
>
some years ago you talks about the hell of coding in GTK3+ .. now seesm is
enought stable for made this ?

*the question here: This change has something to do with the large amount
of resources involved in running the environment in qt5 and the future qt6?*


>
> As it's far from sure at the moment that 'gb.gtk3' will be stable
> enough, 'gb.gui.qt' may be used again in the next stable versions.
>
> Le 21/10/2020 à 01:07, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > With the last commit in master, you can now run the development
> > environment with GTK+3.
> >
> > You will get a lot of GTK+ layout warnings [1], no support of the Gambas
> > bitmap font [2], some unexpected crashes, and many other problems for
> sure!
> >
> > The new Web browser is not finished (it uses WebKit on both QT and
> > GTK+), and will not support DOM access methods like the old one, because
> > that's not supported by Qt and GTK+ Webkit interface.
> >
> > If you want to test it, please report the problems, not necessarily on
> > the bugtracker as this is development in progress.
> >
> > Enjoy.
> >
> > [1] I don't know how to get rid of them at the moment.
> > [2] Removed by the GTK+ developers because.
> >
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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