Re: [gtk-list] Re: GTK+ and non-Unix OS

[Warwick Mitchell <wrangle ircnet com au>]

fractture wrote:

> >
> >
> > Yes, I have been thinking about porting GTK+ to Win32 and BeOS.  I
> > haven't had much time to work on it though.  (I do have GLIB.DLL on my
> > Windows drive.  But that's the trivial part.  :) As I have said before
> > on this list, I think the path of least resistance would be to port
> > GDK to use the native windowing system's drawing routines, but leave
> > GTK mostly untouched.  GTK+ apps wouldn't have the native look and
> > feel of the OS, but ports of GTK+ apps would be much less painful.
>
> You know, I gotta tell you....if it doesn't have the "native look&feel" of win95
> I would say that is a pluss, not a minus.
> That is one very annoying thing about windows and such....everything looks the
> same.  Its a very boring interface.  Besides, having the ability at all is very
> nice....thank you for working on it.  I figured if noone else did, I would in a
> couple of years when I could ;)
> If you need help, I will help any way I can....but I don't know much.  And I
> never done any win32 or BeOS programming.

I totally agree.
I'd love a port of gtk to win9*, then i wouldn't have to totally rewrite programs
for windows. I'd love to help in anyway possible. I've never done any win
programming either but would be willing to give it a go.


Warwick