External Widgets?

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Mon Oct 23 15:34:17 UTC 2000


> 
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Kevin Fisher wrote:
> 
> > One of the reasons I was asking about C++ and FFI was that I was thinking of 
> > toying with the calling of  KDE or GTK+ widgets from Squeak. 
> 
> You might want to have a look at wxWindows.org which lets you build GTK+
> apps while maintaining cross-platform compatibility ...

Ah, that's RIGHT!  I forgot about wxWindows...  I know they have GTK+ bindings,
and at one time there were Qt bindings too.


> 
> > Or even more intreguing...how about 'external' Morphic (mapping Morphs
> > directly into X11 or Windows)?
> 
> You mean an X11Canvas? That'd be cool :)
> 
> -- Bert
> 

Yes, something like that...being able to display Morphs directly would
be really cool! It could provide an interesting basis for creating new 
widgets and toolkits, too.  Unfortunately I know Xlib about as well as
I know Esperanto so I wouldn't know where to begin. :)






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