Re: Cross compiling Winboard in Linux

Den 09-01-2012 15:48, h.g. muller skrev:
>
>> Haven't you talked about moving the ICS communication from the console
>> to a window? If so this problem will disappear.
>
> Indeed we have, and there is even a patch around in some side branch
> that does this in the Xt version. That was much more convenient, because
> it allowed us to give it focus, reposition and resize the window from
> the XBoard code, define context menus when you click on ICS output...
> All those niceties that WinBoard gives you, and XBoard not, but that I
> didn't know how to do when the ICS interaction window was a separate
> xterm window.
>
> But what stopped us there was that the Athena widget set did not seem to
> allow selective colorization of text in ascii widgets, like we have in
> the xterm. Perhaps GTK does allow this, so we could re-instate that
> patch. And then of course we still have to do a lot more to bring it at
> the level of WinBoard.

Selective colors in text widgets should cause no problem at all in GTK.