Re: [Fwd: GTK+ without X]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Thomas Haeberli <ranma gargoyles ch> writes:
> Am Montag,  8. Januar 2001 20.04 schrieben Sie:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I have a couple of very nasty questions for people out there...
> >
> > 1. Does anybody out there know if it is possible to compile glib & gtk+
> > using a c++ compiler?
> >
> > 2. If the above cannot be done, does anybody have any experience w/
> > integrating c++ code that uses the language's exception handling
> > capabilities w/ gtk+ -- I am starting to run into nasty problems of having
> > a program core dump whenever an exception is thrown from a c++ code
> > fragment that is called from the gtk mainloop...
> 
> 
> There's a Toolbox called wxWindows.
> It's a very usefull Toolbox, sometimes  easyer then GTK+ himself ;)
> 
> go  to http://www.wxwindows.org and then you can download
> the wxGTK+.
> 
> And some of the default Dialogs are replaced throug the Style from
> the Windows Platform.
> 

wxGTK doesn't help at all, it still has GTK inside, so you still can't
throw exceptions when GTK signals are on the stack. wxGTK just makes
it harder to know when GTK signal emissions are on the stack, since it
conceals those as an implementation detail.

Havoc