Re: [Planner Dev] Planner Win32 - Cygwin edition

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Sorry to resurrect and old thread but...
>
> Richard Hult wrote:
>
> > This is the weak point I guess. It would be really great to get rid of 
> > the X dependency and use the win32 backend for GTK+ instead. I don't 
> > think we should commit this on HEAD since having to use an X server 
> > reduces the use pretty much in my opinion. We could put it in a branch 
> > to keep track of the patch and make it easier to work on it.
> >
> > Do you have any idea if it's possible to do a mix and match here and use 
> > cygwin for some parts but not have to use X?
>
>
> Yes, Use wxWidgets.
> On unix wxWidgets prefers to use GTK as the underlying widget set, under 
> win32 it prefers to use the native windows widgets.

We're definitly not going to port Planner to another toolkit, and a 
different language as well :)

It's a lot easier and faster to get a native GTK+ running, I'm sure of 
that. We just need someone to do it, abstract away the Unixisms and 
implement those bits for a Windows version. The problem right now is a 
lack of resources, which wouldn't be helped by rewriting the whole thing.

Regards,
Richard

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