Re: [gsl-dev] GTK+ v FLTK

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Dov Grobgeld wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 01:04:40AM -0700, Edward Peterlin wrote:
> > [stuff deleted]
> > 
> > There is absolutely NO reason we need to move to GTK or ANY OTHER 
> > "cross-platform" toolkit for the sheer purpose of drawing buttons in 
> > the appearance of a specific platform and widget set.  The Neo 
> > prototype proves this point in a rather self-evident fashion of OOo 
> > running on top of a completely different widget set from its core 
> > implementation, not to mention pure native widgets in an AWT peer 
> > similar fashion for menus.
> 
> Excuse me if I'm wrong, but I believe the issue gets harder once
> you get into l10n issues. Even if you don't use Gtk+ you would have
> to call Pango in order to use its rendering of complex scripts that
> are painted on top of the buttons. Or reimplement that functionality 
> in your toolkit, which sounds like a complete waste of time. 
>  

That functionality already exists.

> Regards,
> Dov
> 

	Sander

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