Re: BonoboControls and Windows

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> Is it possible to have a Windows application implement the BonoboControl
> interface?
> It's not like I needed that right now (heck, I haven't even programmed for
> Windows), but a quick look at the IDLs made me curious because of the
> following line:
> 	  /**
> 	   * set_window:
> 	   * @id: An X Window ID.
> 	   *
> 	   * Sets the window ID that should be used for the plug
> 	   * of this window.
> 	   */
> 	  void set_window (in windowid id);
> 
> This looks like Bonobo's GUI stuff is being tied to X. Is it so? Is it a
> bad thing?

Not really.  If you look for the windowid definition, it is an
arbitrary string that can represent any windowing system identifier.

In Windows, you can just change the id for the handle to the window.

Miguel.