Sherlock, Ric wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Sherlock Ric wrote:
>>> Will the choice of Gtk as the gui toolkit for the new Session
>>> manager have any impact on the availability of the next version of J
>>> on Windows Mobile?
>>>
>>> http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Qt_vs_GTK#Portability
>> IMO the comparison is quite fair. However Qt has a very serious
>> disadvantage for use with scripting languages is that it is a C++
>> library therefore cannot be directly called from other applications.
>> J cd call can only be used if someone writes a J language binding for
>> qt.  Or a socket server based qt ide might be feasible.
> 
> Thanks, that helps make the situation clearer to me. Can you confirm 
> therefore that a J7 gui is unlikely to be available on Windows Mobile?

No GTK+ gui for sure. Otherwise, we have not thought about it, and it
would be way down in priority.
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