Re: gtk on windows

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Ney André de Mello Zunino <zunino inf ufsc br> writes:

> Just out of curiosity: why aren't the native controls actually used?
> What is the rationale for drawing everything with low-level routines
> instead of using ready-made elements? I have no experience in UI
> toolkit development, so my question might be naive. Bear with me, but
> I just thought that using native API facilities (e.g. the
> CreateWindow() function) would be easier and produce more consistent
> results than reinventing the wheel.

Who said that CreateWindow() wouldn't be used? Perhaps, before we
discuss this further, you could spend like 10 minutes looking at the
gdk/win32 code ?!


Sven