Gtk2 coming to Squeak...

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Sun Feb 8 20:26:11 UTC 2004


On Feb 8, 2004, at 1:34 PM, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:

> Aaron J Reichow <reic0024 at d.umn.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
>>
>>> "Blanchard, Todd" <todd.blanchard at cendant.com> wrote:
>>>> If you're going to play with something like that, why not do it 
>>>> with this?
>>>>
>>>> http://wxwindows.org/
>>>>
>>>> Then us mac people could play too.
>>
>> Mac folks can use GTK+, at least on OS X.  Of course, it isn't 
>> completely
>> finished, but it doesn't require X11. But it does run CinePaint (nee
>> Film Gimp), though in an alpha state.
>>
>> http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Sure, it doesn't look like a native Mac app, but it's better than 
>> nothing.
>> I too would rather have someone use an API that looked native, but at 
>> the
>> same time, I'd much rather have GTK+ rather than nothing. I'm not 
>> doing
>> the work, and if Goran chooses to bestow upon us something fun and
>> potentially useful, I'm not going to complain.

And, for that matter, the stock GTK distribution works fine with 
Apple's X11 server. I use it to run GIMP with no problems at all.

Colin




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