Folks, --- Nicolas Roard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So when it's done, you can either 1) use the pixmap theme engine to > create a "windows theme" using pixmaps -- easy and quick, but as > explained, not perfect -- you can even already start, just grab > Camaelon and create a theme ! 2) create your own theme engine using > the extended GSDrawFunctions api, that will use the Windows theme api > for the drawing -- ideal. Follow GTK-WIMP here... They extended the GTK+ pixmap theme to use the Windows drawing functions to draw the relevant pixmaps on the fly. (I believe there is a gtk+ theme that does this with QT as well.) It looks quite close to the real thing. The one problem here, as others have mentioned with GTK-WIMP, is that the resulting app looks like Windows but a lot of the feel is wrong -- i.e. button order is wrong, buttons are too big, too small. I think this is where we have a big hand up with Gorm. You simply load up the gorm file you created on Linux in windows with Gorm + WinTheme and modify the gorm file to fit the windows HIG. NeXT knew this back in the day and provided a MyApp-windows.nib (or something along those lines) with new apps. Hell, you could have a MyApp-pda.gorm and a MyApp-gnome.gorm (that uses the GNOME HIG), whatever. Gorm is cool like that. > After that steps, you'll have a GNUstep AppKit that will _look_ the > same as Win32. But then you'll have some behaviors that will be > missing or different. Luckily, you don't need to reinvent the wheel > here (..or..not entirely), you just need to provide a gui bundle that > implement what you want. For instance, Menu "in windows" could be > implemented in two steps: > - create an horizontal menu (see the WildMenu gui bundle for such a feat) > - integrate that horizontal menu in the windows, possibly using the > existing hooks used by NSToolbar Aie, this is really not hard. Take WildMenus, sprinkle in some updates and some love, and you can have a horizontal menu in a window. Take a look at http://u.cc.utah.edu/~msh3/xmas_surprise.png for what I had working last year after a day of hacking. The biggest issue is this: how do you determine which windows get a menu bar in them? If someone wants to pick up the WildMenus code, clean it, love it, and make this happen I'd be happy to provide input along the way. > Still, it will be much better to participate in GNUstep, > because whatever modification that is needed should be included, as > the hability for GNUstep to "blend in" Windows will very likely > necessitate the same steps and hooks that the hability of blending in > KDE or GNOME, so working to have a proper GNUstep integration on > Windows will in fact be good for everybody. Couldn't agree more... Michael _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
