Re: [gtkmm] Developing portable enterprise applications

[Alessandro Oliveira <alessandro o nunoferreira com br>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> > From: Alessandro Oliveira [mailto:alessandro o nunoferreira com br] 
> > we found that gtkmm it 
> > is a great 
> > toolkit and it has a very clean design, although it is 
> > slightly slow on 
> > windows, I mean its larger than we think it should be.
> >    
>
> So you have found that something is slow and you _guess_ it's due to the
> size of the library's binary? Or do you have some more information?
I _guess_ that the slowness is caused by the windows port of gtk, since 
other applications that use gtk seems to be slower on windows, I mean at 
least gimp and gaim. I mentioned the library's size just for comparition 
purposes.

> Is anything in particular slow? For a database application I guess you are
> using Gtk::TreeView quite a lot. That can be slow in some cases, but there
> are ways to avoid the problems or speed it up.
>  
We are creating little projects just to test how the toolkits work in 
order to make a better choice for the bigger one, though we still didn't 
connect anything to the database.

> Actually I would expect gtkmm to be slower than wxWindows on Windows because
> gtkmm does not use the win32 API. But I would not expect the difference to
> be noticeable by a user and I have no proof that it actually makes any
> difference even in unperceivable ways.
>  
As I said before, I think the problem is due to gtk windows port, thanks 
anyway.

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