Re: Why GTK+ use C as API style?

["Eliot Spitzer" <american communist party gmail com>]

Same here... I use gtkmm. Works well imo.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
>
>  On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:27 +0800, 李西西 wrote:
>  > Hi, all:
>  >     When I saw the introduce of GTK+, it seemed that GTK+ have many
>  > new thought in it, like OO, component, etc. But, why GTK+ still use C
>  > style API, not an OO framework like WXwidgets?
>
>  Could it be that GTK is a C language API and WxWidgets is a C++ language
>  API? If you're asking why that is, its because people generally consider
>  it easier to bind other languages to C than to C++. for the wider GTK
>  community, the availability of Python, Perl, PHP, C++ and many other
>  bindings has become very significant.
>
>  If you prefer to use a C++ idiom/API, just use gtkmm: www.gtkmm.org.
>  I've been using GTK+ for 8 years and i've never use the C API unless i
>  was forced to.
>
>  --p
>
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