Discussion about Zinf audio player development

gtk-Win32?


Would anybody be able to comment on the win32 gtk port? Does it work?
what are the requirements, etc?

I've looked around a bit and seen that gimp was ported to win32.

Would we be able to take the same route for zinf?  It seems a shame
to always have to maintain two major GUIs instead of one.

I do not currently have a win32 machine or I would attempt this 
myself.

Has anybody tried this approach or decided against this?

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Alexey Zakhlestine | 12 Aug 09:38

Re: gtk-Win32?

kristian kvilekval wrote:
kk> Would anybody be able to comment on the win32 gtk port? Does it work?
kk> what are the requirements, etc?

GTK+ is not a good decision for win-32. All projects, that I've seen
using it, seem to be not user-friendly.. Fonts have incorrect size,
layout is often broken, etc.
Speed also suffers.

IMHO, we should stay "native", when possible..

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Mario Pintaric | 13 Aug 10:08

Re: gtk-Win32?

It would be cool to have a Win32 version of GTK+, but from what I've seen,
this is such a big job that you could dedicate all of your time just trying
to make this work/stable.

In the end, the only big return would be to minimize issues across
platforms.  From the little that I've toyed with it, the current ideas
pertaining to GTK and Win32 are way off the mark performance wise.  GTK to
work well under Win32 will need some device driver support and shell
integration.  Quite doable and something that would make it more attractive
as an option, even for developers enslaved by Win32 (like me), but not
likely to come out of Redmond.  The alternative is to have a generic filter
driver, unfortunately, no one appears to be looking at any of this.

My two cents worth, the cygwin efforts and the fact that it has become very
GCC centric doesn't help either.

GTK+?  Maybe next year or the year after that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexey Zakhlestine" <me <at> mail.indeyets.net>
To: "kristian kvilekval" <zinf-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Zinf-devel] gtk-Win32?

> kristian kvilekval wrote:
> kk> Would anybody be able to comment on the win32 gtk port? Does it work?
> kk> what are the requirements, etc?
>
> GTK+ is not a good decision for win-32. All projects, that I've seen
> using it, seem to be not user-friendly.. Fonts have incorrect size,

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Tim Lesher | 13 Aug 14:59

Re: gtk-Win32?

Mario Pintaric said:
> It would be cool to have a Win32 version of GTK+, but from what I've
> seen, this is such a big job that you could dedicate all of your time
> just trying to make this work/stable.

The current win32 GTK port (as used in Gimp/win32) works pretty well...
the biggest problem I can see is that it just doesn't feel like a win32
app (surprise!), which I'm sure will turn off Windows users.

A better choice might be wxWindows.  It's much more mature, much more
stable, and uses native widgets on each platform.  We're using it at work,
and it looks good and works well.  The downside is that it has its own
message model (think of a cross-platform MFC).

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