Hi Camm. | > That is actually very interesting. Note however that GTK on | Windows is not | > as stable as it is on Unix. | > | | OK, but how bad is bad?
Here are some examples. Apart from the slowness of launching GIMP (by far the slowest to launch on my system) as the vast quantity of Unix emulation dlls and other GTK machinery loads, common items such as the file selectors are completely foreign to Windows users and considerably less usable than their Windows equivalents. Occasionally one ends up with menus which somehow become detached from the parent program and which can't be closed and which simultaneously lock the parent so that the program has to be killed through the process manager - perhaps fixed now, I am certainly out of date, but then again, what a hassle to continually update and harmonise stuff I don't want to know about. | And how temporary might this be? Who would know? Probably a long time. The only major GTK applications I'm aware of on Windows are Glade and the GIMP which means that a large segment of GTK is presumably largely untested on Windows. Here is a link: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/ Added to this is the issue of potential clashes between various application builds and the currently installed version of GTK, which is the reason | Anyway to | try a quick glade example on Windows to get a 30min idea of where the | issues are? Not at the moment as I suspect it will clash with my version of GTK and GIMP! Perhaps over the weekend. Hopefully you can see roughly where it's at from the comments above. Although Glade definitely sounds like a very big plus, it also seems there is a lot more work involved with GTK than just getting GCL/Tk up on Windows both for developers and end users. Cheers Mike Thomas. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
