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

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On  5 Oct, Ken Fox wrote:
> Ted Lemon writes:
>> Jason A. Pfeil writes:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> I learned to program X with the old Xt/Xaw stuff, and I have to say
>> that I consider its absence a feature, not a bug.
> 
> I'm not interested in a discussion about the pros/cons of toolkits.
> There is a whole lot of stuff that's in Xt that isn't (yet) in Gtk.
> Some of that stuff is pretty complex -- hopefully Gtk will do it
> better.  For example, the style concept in Gtk is an interesting
> alternative to the resources in Xt.  On the other hand, Xt has really
> good resource conversion features that allow almost unlimited
> customization.  (A lot of widget sets manage to totally mess this up.)
> 
>> It was an interesting experiment, and by no means a failure, but I am
>> quite impressed with the model that Gtk follows, and I think the
>> difference is worth the porting cost.
> 
> And what model is that?  This is the core of my question.  I know the
> Xt model really well.  How does Gtk map into that?  Does widget class
> inheritance work like Xt?  Does Gtk have translations tables?  How are
> styles inherited in new widget classes?  How are signals different from
> Xt callbacks?  I suppose I can ask all these questions, but I hoped
> that somebody would have a file called "gtk-internals-for-xt-hackers"
> laying around. ;)
> 
> I've read the tutorial and cranked out a few simple programs.  Now I
> want to dig under the hood.  I've started reading the code, but it'd
> help to be able to map what I already know about Xt with Gtk.
> 
> - Ken
> 
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Ken,

Do your plans include mapping gtk into your perl-Xlib-Xt-Motif-Xbae-XRT
module?

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