On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
[embedding Gtk widgets in Xt]
> This ought to be a task for a GTK hacker, who wants GTK to be
> used more widely. If somebody is willing, then I will be glad
> to help out on the Xt side.
>
this is a little bit backwards/counter Gtk design. The whole reason Gtk
abstracts itself (via Gdk) from X is to provide greater portability. Since
there is already a Gdk implementation on top of X, the "normal" thought process
in writing an X application with Gtk would be "I'm writing this in Gtk a)
because it's an easy widget toolkit to write for b) because I'm *gaining*
portability to other platforms, due to built-in abstraction layers". Embedding
a Gtk widget in Xt for the pure purpose of accessing a widget that itself is
embedded in Gtk strikes me as ... roundabout ...
Why would you want to do this anyhow? I can see wanting to access Gtk widgets
from Qt or vise versa, but why from Xt?
The correct way to do it, btw, is to bonobo-ify GtkMozEmbed, after which you
can use it from anything you like ... (editorial note: /me thinks CORBA is
highly overrated and results in broken and dog-slow systems like <ugh> NT).
More directly, it should be a reasonable hack to take say ... the gtkEmbed code
and just port that embedding over to Xt (to get a direct embedding, rather than
an Xt widget). iirc the mozilla part of gtkEmbed doesn't rely very heavily on
that much in the toolkit ...
Actually it wouldn't be too hard to write an Xt wrapper that acts like a Gdk
container. Gdk is fairly closely based on X structures anyhow :)
there. i think i've covered every possible opinion.
Ari
