Re: [gtk-list] Help moving from Xt to Gtk

["Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil nu cs fsu edu>]

Ken,

I, too, started X programming w/Xt and Xaw.  As you surmised, Gtk is
nowhere nere Xt/Xaw and that's too bad because this prevents almost
pluggable conversion of Xaw programs to Gtk.  However, Gtk's programming
model isn't that difficult to pick up.  The tutorial on the gtk website
(www.gtk.org/tutorial) was a great help to me and is a great source of
information.

--Jason

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Ken Fox wrote:

> 
> I know Xt and the Xt widget model really well.  I'm starting to learn
> Gtk (hopefully so that I can help out with widget coding, not just
> writing apps) and would like to map what I know about Xt into Gtk.  Are
> there any docs that can help me?  The FAQ is oddly silent about
> this -- seems like an obvious way to attract Xaw/Xm programmers to the
> project.  (Did I just volunteer for the job? ;)
> 
> The one area I'd like to work on in Gtk is resource management.  From
> what I've read so far Gtk doesn't do any.  Would it be ok to adopt the
> standard X resource model to Gtk?  Are there others working on this
> right now?  It will probably require a few new standard signals, such
> as "resources_changed", and possibly other structural changes -- I'd
> hate to approach such a job lightly.
> 
> Also, I'm wondering why Gtk isn't just a widget set built on Xt.  The
> e-mail archive search isn't working and Deja News didn't turn up anything.
> Is it a license issue?  Or is Xt just a poor choice for the toolkit that
> Gtk wants to become?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> - Ken
> 
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