Re: Gtk objects without X system

[Franck Martin <franck sopac org>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> José Antonio Caminero Granja <JCamGra teleline es> writes:
> > Hello to all,
> >       I think would be better to allow apps with Gtk objects (not widgets) out of X
> > system (gtk_main forbids this) because then would be easier having a graphical
> > or non graphical interface making "non graphical widgets". For instance, I am
> > developing a CASE tool for Software Architectures where model and controller
> > (MVC point of view) are been coded like Gtk objects (non graphical) because
> > I'm using an OO desing (I select C instead of C++ because when I began this
> > project Gtk-- doc was very, very poor) and I'd like to run it out of X throug
> > an interpreted language (but if there isn't a X system won't run).
> >       I know Gtk is Gimp ToolKit -a graphical objects repository-, but now Gtk is
> > more than this, it is a C extension for using objects.
>
> You can use GtkObject without X, simply call gtk_type_init() instead
> of gtk_init().
>
> Havoc
>
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I have developped a GTK widget based on gtkglarea. I would like also to be able to use
it without any display, called from Apache to generate images... Can you help a little
bit more on the subject?

Thanks
Franck