Philippe Lhoste wrote:
Robert Roessler wrote:
Robert Roessler wrote:
This is probably my "indicator" problem in slightly different guise...
For anyone looking at this thread, it was. :)
Out of curiosity, why are you using "Scintilla for GTK on Windows"?
I mean, Scintilla is a native Windows component, so what is the interest of using the GTK+ version on this platform?
I can guess some reasons, like "I don't know (well) Windows programming while I master GTK+ coding", "For the uniformity of behaviour", "Because I want my application to be pure GTK+ to avoid having an intermediate platform layer" or similar stuff...
Yes, it probably does seem odd... none of the above, BTW - you might check out my site sometime. :)
The ONLY reason is that there is a toolkit for OCaml ("LablGTK") that seems to be the closest thing in the OCaml universe to a modern cross-platform runtime GUI environment. :( Add in the facts that I wanted to do some [GUI] OCaml programming that would be runnable "everywhere" AND that my own development/delivery environment is usually Windows, and we arrive... here. :)
I wonder if GTK+ has evolved much these last years. I used to use, two or three years ago, Ethereal which is pure GTK+ running on Windows, and I wasn't overly pleased by its look-and-feel. More by the slightly different feel than the look, ugly, but I can live with it. Perhaps it has a more native behaviour now.
I cannot really speak to historical/"future of" questions vis-a-vis GTK... I do note that there seems to be fairly constant development (judging by the frequent new releases - of course, a lot of them are bugfixes), and there *is* a theming engine framework. But that may be tied to the GNOME desktop or require a "window manager". And yes, non-native look-and-feel can be disconcerting - whatever your "native" platform.
Speaking of GTK+ SciTE (on Debian Linux), I was surprised not to see a Tab setting dialog box. I use it sometime when I get a text with tab-separated fields needing large tab values to accomodate all field sizes. That's where I wish to have variable tab stops (eg. at columns 20,45,55,60,120...), but the need is not compelling enough to justify work on it.
You are referring to Scintilla itself not supporting arbitrary tabstops within a line? I had not really looked for that before - I just did, and did not see that feature... OTOH, it is most useful in a mono-spaced font world, which does not seem to be Scintilla's main thrust. :)
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