From graphics-request at octave dot org Sun Jul 18 08:38:55 2004
Subject: Re: Choice of GTK+
From: Shai Ayal <shaiay at yahoo dot com>
To: Muthiah Annamalai <ec10130 at nitt dot edu>
Cc: graphics at octave dot org
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:37:16 -0700 (PDT)

I hope you are right, but looking in the GTK homepage,

http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html

I see this warning:

"The packages below are for people who develop
software that use GLib and/or GTK. The binaries (DLLs
and executables) in these packages are not for
programs running under the Cygwin Unix emulation
environment. (That does not mean that you can't use
Cygwin's shell, make, etc to develop applications that
use these DLLs.) They use the MSVCRT runtime."

I am not a big expert on windows dll's, but won't
octave's reliance on cygwin work against you here ?

Shai


--- Muthiah Annamalai <ec10130 at nitt dot edu> wrote:
> Hello there!
> Thanks for the generous response.
> I plan to use GTK+.
> 
> >Shai Ayal wrote:
> > However may I suggest that if you set  about
> writing bindings to some 
> >graphics toolkit, it might be best to  choose a
> toolkint which natively 
> >supports Windows and Mac. I know of  at least two:
> fltk and wxwindows. It is 
> >hard to imagine, 
> 
> >Paul Kienzle Wrote:
> >I've run Gimp under windows, so much of the toolkit
> has been ported.  I 
> >don't know about more recent versions though.
> 
> Yes GTK+ is also completely portable, with minor
> changes if at all.
> Huge projects like GIMP, DIA are cross platform
> simply because
> of the GTK+ capability.
> 
> In addition to all this:
> 
> GTK+ is 
> -> has i18n support.
> -> has GLADE, a code generation & GUI designer.
> -> Fast!
> -> Supported on [*nix, window$, ...]
> -> Used for GNOME desktop
> -> Is there to exist successfully.
> -> in Version 2.4.
> -> Lots of language binings for GTK+ exist,
>    like {C++,Java, Haskell, ML, lisp, guile/scheme,
>          Perl,Python,S, ...} //soon OCTAVE!
> -> GTK+ mailing list people are very helpful though!
> ;-)
> -> They make releases every 6 months, so its live &
> kicking.
> 
> So I'd better stick to GTK+ as the choice.
> Any fears must be alleviated.
> Cheers
> Muthu.
> 
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