Re: [gtk-list] Re: To GTK, or not to GTK - that is the question

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer cs nmsu edu>]

   >I programmed applications with Motif for a number of years.  I hated
   >it, although Wcl made things a little easier to stomach.

   I wish I understood the dislike for Motif programming. My experience has
   been pretty positive.

My experience with Motif was ``pretty positive,'' but when I hit its
limits I found them absolutely maddening.  For instance:  using UIL, I
can create a widget, and put a pixmap on it, using any colormap I
want.  But if I just create a pixmap, I have to use the standard
colormap.  So what do I do if I want to be able to put several
different pixmaps on a widget (something my application does a *lot*
of)?  I have to create them all with attached widgets, and then delete
their widgets.  Here's another one -- my application required a very
simple bitmap editor to be embedded in it.  The easy way to do this is
with an array of pushbuttons.  But it flatly would not let us create
those buttons with a spacing of 0 between them.  Oops.
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