Re: [gtk-list] Re: Porting a Motif app. to GTK

["David Given" <dg tao-group com>]

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>> and container widgets in one kit won't hold
>> child widgets from the other.
>
>Really?  Hmmmm.  Somehow I would think that a good implementation of a
>given container would be such that it could contain *any* other widget,
>not just widgets of the same toolkit.  Perhaps my lack of toolkit
>(proper) design/developement experience is showing.

Motif uses the Xt object structure (as does Open Look and Athena), but GTK 
uses its own system. Basically, it's like trying to fit a US mains plug into a 
UK socket: the actual electricity's pretty much the same, but all the 
protocols are wrong.

It should be possible to write a Motif widget that pretends to be a GTK 
container, and vice versa, but it would probably be incredibly fiddly. 
Extremely useful, though, for piecemeal porting of applications.

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