Re: Can I use Motif in gtk app?

[Pascal Ognibene <pascal ognibene libertysurf fr>]

Xavier Zhao wrote:

>As you know, Netscape 4.X is written based on Motif. So my plugin is written
>based on Motif too. But now Netscape 6.X is written using gtk. My plugin
>would lead to crash while invoking Motif functions. I don't want to rewrite
>my plugin. So is it possible to using Motif in a gtk program. If the answer
>is true, than how can I make it? Thanks in advance.
>
>Xaiver
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <pascal ognibene libertysurf fr>
>To: <xavier zhao 163 net>
>Cc: <gtk-list gnome org>
>Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:26 PM
>Subject: Re: Can I use Motif in gtk app?
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>>---------- Initial message -----------
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>>From    : gtk-list-admin gnome org
>>To      : <gtk-list gnome org>
>>Cc      :
>>Date    : Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:38:42 -0700
>>Subject : Can I use Motif in gtk app?
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>Can I use Motif in a gtk application? It seems it would
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>go to crash.
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>>Regards,
>>Xavier
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>No.
>Why using Motif anyway if you use GTK?
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Netscape 6.x uses GTK but only for widgets that are inside a browser frame.
The interface itself uses XUL - a special graphical toolkit, XML based.
If you really want to use motif your program would have to use IPC to
talk with netscape I think.