Re: Advice about gtk+2.4.x or gtk+2.6.x

[Matt Jarjoura <jarjoura gmail com>]

Do what Mac OS X developers do.  Apple updates Cocoa/Carbon with every
release leaving all the new features only for the most current OS.

use gmodule api to weak link to the function in the library and call
it based on the running gtk+ library installed on the users machine. 
Then if they have that function call it.

If your app can be compiled on the updated system instead, just use
#if GTK_VERSION > 2.6 #endif and go from there.  the GTK_VERSION macro
is wrong... search the headers to find the right on :-)  but hopefully
you'll get the idea.

-Matt

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:54:25 -0400, Antonio Gomes <tonikitoo gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all ...
>
> I think someone can advice me about what choice is the best for my
> situation ... How can I use use in my gtk+2.4.10 application a custom
> button that is available only by gtk+2.6.X ? This widget is called "",
> and it's a custon button that has a combo to provide more than one
> functionalities ... it's like the "back/forward" button in  your web
> browser (a button plus a "popdown" menu, activated by clicking in the
> arrow on its left or right side).
>
> I can migrate to gtk+2.6.x normally , but doing this, I would limite
> the developers running this version of gtk, and as it's a open source
> software, I don't want to restrict it, because gtk+2.4.X is still more
> popular ...
>
> I have pull the gtk+2.6.2 and I've found the files that interest to
> run my application with this button available. I've copy this files to
> my app_dir, and I wanna know if is possible to compile this file from
> gtk+2.6.x to make this widget available to my gtk+2.4.X app ?!
>
> Thanks for any help ...
>
> --
> Antonio Gomes
> Embedded Linux Developer
> Manaus/Br
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