Re: Re[4]: Porting MrProject to wxWindows

Mikael Hallendal <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:06:50 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mr-project.devel
Organization Imendio HB
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fre 2003-10-24 klockan 12.47 skrev Antti Merenluoto:

> In other words, you mean using the GTK+ for Win32 in Windows and then
> porting the foocanvas to Windows (I did not find any references from the
> internet about existing ports)? My impression was that the GTK+ Win32 lags
> a bit behind the actual GTK+ Linux version. That presents a little problem.
> Foocanvas port takes also some time. My initial thought was that the port
> to wxWindows would be less painful than foocanvas to Windows and we would
> not have to worry about the GTK+ versions. wxWindows is more C++ wrapper
> that a toolkit. In Linux wxWindows equals GTK+. I think multiplatform
> development is easiest with wxWindows. 

Just want to second Richard on this. Please look into the possibilities
to strip out GNOME specific usages instead. Otherwise you end up
rewriting the entire UI and would probably be better of starting with
just libmproject.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal
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