Re: [gtk-list] Re: GTK+ GUI target for emacs?

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:49:21 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 03:34:48 CST, Will Benton <bentonw@stolaf.edu>  said:
>> I guess I'm also wondering why this hasn't been done yet.  Is GTK that 
>> different from the other toolkits (or is the UI and the main app so 
>> tightly coupled in emacs) that this is really a major undertaking?
> 
> I can't speak for FSF Emacs, but the XEmacs crew was just discussing this
> point.  The major hassle seems to be that the GTK event loop isn't compatible
> with the Xt event loop (which is used by a lot of other stuff in XEmacs via
> XtAddAppInput() to monitor other file descriptors/etc).
> 
> If this is incorrect, *please* let me know so I can pass the info along.

If XtAddAppInput() just monitors file descriptors, then gdk_input_add()
can replace that function (sorry, I don't have Xt manuals here).


Erik

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