Am 09.06.2014 12:08, schrieb Tobias Boege: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2014, B Bruen wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 10:04:12 +0200 >> "Wolfgang, dl7nb" <[email protected]> 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 > Thank you B.Bruen and Tobi,
...so it may be a wise decision to throw gb.gui over board and stay with qt4... That is what I have feared, but this way I have enough work for the summer ;-) Anyway: you helped me out of this problem! Thank you! From northern Bavaria Wolfgang ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://www.hpccsystems.com _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
