Re: GTK+ Mac OS X state of the union

[Adriano <adriano euma com>]

Andres,

Il giorno 28/mar/06, alle ore 09:56, Anders Carlsson ha scritto:

> Hello,
>
> For the last three months I've been working on making the GTK+ Mac  
> OS X
> port in a somewhat feature-complete state so we can slap a "1.0"  
> tag on
> it. The progress (as well as the remaining items) can be found on
> http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Gtk_Mac_OS_X/Roadmap

I am eager to have a native Gtk+ port on Mac Os X because I hate the  
poor level of integration of OpenOffice and other Gtk based tools on  
Mac.

So I want to thank you for your work.

> The most challenging task remaining now is to make GTK+ use the  
> built-in
> double-buffering features that exist in Mac OS X; I have sort of an  
> idea
> on how to do this and I'll send off a proposal shortly to the list,  
> since
> this most certainly changes some of the low-level parts of GDK)
>
> We at Imendio always welcome help, there's a list of things to do  
> availabe
> on http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Gtk_Mac_OS_X/Things_to_do with
> varying degrees of difficulty.

I considered to see wether I could help with this work. I do not  
write code that frequently, but I hoped I could be useful...

I managed to install the Gtk machinery on my ibok. I installed all  
the tools in the reuired version, and then all the libraries, one by  
one...

Now the point is that I have a really impressive bunch of code on my  
machine ! Pango, Cairo, atk, Gtk... wow !

I don't understand all this code ! Who does call who, when ? What's  
the intended model ?

How am I supposed to flip inside the framework ?

Is there any class diagram or collaboration diagram or any other kind  
of diagram ?

I considered Eclipse with the c++ module but it crashes :-(

I considered some Emacs based tools but learning Emacs is something  
that could be more demanding than porting the whole thing perfectly

How do you use to deal with this problem ?

Does it at least seems reasonful to you or you just don't feel it ?

Thanks so much
Bye
Catonano