Re: [gtk-list] Re: GTK for Win32

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

>>>>> "Walt" == Walt Pohl <pohl@math.washington.edu> writes:

Walt> If you are interested in porting GTK, one place to look for
Walt> models would be the port of Tcl/Tk to Win32.

The lesson of Tk is that if you didn't design your toolkit for Windows
porting from the ground up, then you will have to rewrite the bulk of
it to do the port.

Tk's initial port just porting its equivalent of GDK.  It looked like
Motif running on Windows; it was horrible.  The next Tk port to
Windows was basically a rewrite; they changed it to use native widgets
on each platform (on X it just used its old implementation).

Perhaps themability will mean that Gtk could avoid this rewrite.  That
would be nice.  I doubt it would suffice to make something that really
feels like a native Windows application, though.  For instance, on
Windows you can dynamically change the color/font schemes and all
applications will immediately react.  Can Gtk do this?

Tom