Re: [gtk-list] Excuse me for mentioning the unmentionable, but...

["Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy lan2wan com>]

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Surely somebody has thought about the feasibility of, or even tried,
> porting gdk and gtk+ to Win32? (I don't mean just using the X11
> libraries under Win32, but native Win32 graphics API. No MFC of
> course.) What is the biggest problem? The Win32 color model is quite
> different from X11's, isn't it? What about keyboard and mouse focus
> related differences? If somebody has any helpful hints, or even
> partial attempts, I would be grateful for them.... I might try to port
> it myself. (Don't hold your breath, I am talking about a timeframe of
> half a year at least.)

What would be the point, other than making yet another application 
framework that wraps around the windows API?

Brett W. McCoy           
                                         http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy
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