On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 10:56 +0200, 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 also use gtk scintilla on windows. I do it because I wrote a Gtk application and don't have the time to port the whole stuff to win32 API :) May be a valid reason, isn't it ? > 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... What about ... Because I don't have the time - or I'm lazy enough to avoid - to port the whole stuff to Win32 API :-) > 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. Right now there're much better windows themes - say wimp - for gtk on windows. The wimp theme resembles the XP look or win98 look quite well. This theme is the default one right on windows, and it's included with gtk. The behaviour of gtk apps on windows have been also improved. ITOH there are still enought differences between win32 and Gtk apps, to notice you're not running a win32 native application when using GTK. Mostly focus issues. I'm almost sure you'll only see gtk scintilla on win32 when looking at gtk applications/libraries written for Unix/Linux, and then ported to windows. -- Iago Rubio _______________________________________________ Scintilla-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scintilla-interest
