Re: [gtk-list] Re: I want to understand

[Bill Huey <billh mag ucsd edu>]

> That's why you write your interfaces in IDL and use CORBA standards.
> Writing your library in C is not the only way to make it language
> neutral. See, for example, Fresco.

GTK is beginning to look like C++'s OO architecture.

With the recent announcement that GTK will have the notion of 
Java Interfaces (a form of multipule inheritance) in the next
development, release only magnifies the replication of the OO
facilities by "hand" instead of by "compiler".

This just magnifies the mistake that GTK was not built on top of an
strong OO language like Java, since more and more OO facilities are
being built by hand.

What's happening here is that GTK is converging on having the same,
yet inferior capabilities, as a genuine OO language and replicating
the same OO facilities as an OO language by "hand", which is
completely ridiculous given the tedious error prone amount of work
that it takes to maintain the OO layer.

That's my rant.

Look at the BeOS kit for an excellent examples of a GUI kit.

> Michael Babcock
> Jim Henson's Creature Shop - Los Angeles
> mbabcock@la.creatureshop.henson.com

bill