Re: [gtk-list] Re: widgets

[Josh MacDonald <jmacd CS Berkeley EDU>]

> On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 christian.sunesson@abc.se wrote:
> 
> > 	Wouldn't it be cool if all the widgets were in their own dynamic 
> > object files so gtk could load them with dl_open ?  That way it'd be
> > possible to keep different sets of widgets for the same thing, they'd just
> > look different.
> 
> It's possible now, you just dlopen() the file yourself, and call the
> 'gtk_classname_init()' function right after loading it.

There is a problem in the UNIX world of making this sort of thing
easy to do and portable.  There's a need for someone to write a package
that manages compile-time and run-time configuration of modular programs
like the original poster requests.  Several people do it, but none seem
to be very general.

-josh