Re: for the php-gtk people

From:	Andi Gutmans	Date:	Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:29:43 +0000
Subject:	Re: for the php-gtk people
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At 02:12 PM 8/24/2001 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:
    My understanding is that it provides "native" support -- ie, you
    write for wxWindows and then when compiling for Win32 systems, it
    will use the native win32 interface (unlike GTK programs -- which
    look the same on win32 and linux).  If you're compiling for a
    Macintosh envionment -- it uses the native Mac API.
And the advantage of this approach being...? I think having applications look the same on all platforms is more appropriate.

The pros are that people feel comfortable with a GUI which looks like the rest of their GUI programs. The con is that it's harder to write apps which will have a working layout on all GUI systems. Andi