Re: GUI shananigans (fwd)

[atai ece ucsd edu (Andy Tai)]

There are some people interested in writing a WxWindow wrapper on gtk.   Here
is some info: 

Forwarded message:
> From owner-gnome@athena.nuclecu.unam.mx Wed Aug 20 12:30:44 1997
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 15:38:31 +0300
> From: philipd@parallax.co.uk
> Cc: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>,
>         wxwin-users@babbage.eng.nene.ac.uk, gnome@nuclecu.unam.mx,
>         Stefan_Wille@public.uni-hamburg.de, p150650@lenkkari.cs.tut.fi,
>         alan@diamondage.cymru.net, weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de
> Subject: Re: GUI shananigans
> 
> Philip Dawes writes:
> > It seems the mailing list for these gui related emails is turning into
> > spagetti. Here's the gist as far as I can see:
> > 
> > Wolfram Gloger is a wxwindows coder, and want's to write a gtk backend
> > for the system, but with additional functionality such as template
> > signals (Tero style) and STL. 
> > 
> > Tero Pulkkinen used to be a QT app programmer, and wants to write a new
> > gtk wrapper set, based loosely on the QT api and his template signal
> > mechanism.
> > 
> > Stefan Wille also wants a new gtk wrapper set, and will probably 
> > 
> > The Gnome project group are looking for a free gui class library to
> > implement their KDE style desktop project. At the moment they're using
> > gtk but they may be swayed to use another kit if the benefits are great
> > enough.
> > 
> > Me? I want a C++ windowing api with the sleek looks of gtk, a clean OO
> > interface and simple design, and complete type-safeness. In addition I
> > also want MSWindows style functionality such as object linking and
> > embedding, a clean printing interface and a mechanism for connecting the
> > UI components to objects to allow applications to share functionality
> > (have you seen the way ms-word uses remote internet explorer 3 objects
> > and controls to allow seemless editing and navigation of html documents
> > - it's breathtaking).
> > 
> > As far as I can tell at this point, the only project that has the
> > potentual to offer all of this is wxwindows. My intention is to
> > implement the gtk backend with Wolfram, whilst making some design
> > changes to the original api to make it leaner and to incorporate the new
> > signal and STL functionality. In addition, wxwindows is undergoing a
> > redesign for version 2.0, and I intend to push for api changes to bring
> > the system more in line with other gui toolkits (in particular, changes
> > to the event system), using the gtk implementation as a testbed for the
> > design changes.
> > 
> > Just thought I'd lay some cards on the table.
> 


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Li-Cheng Tai (Andy Tai)                       e-mail: atai@ece.ucsd.edu

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