Re: for the php-gtk people

> > I've been looking at crossplatform gui-development, and > > one of the > > things that is easily found is the wxWindows tools > (www.wxwindows.org). > > > > This looks to be sort of the same as php-gtk, but it does > windows, motif > > os/2 and mac as well (aside from gtk). > > What do you mean by aside from gtk? That it not only supports gtk, but the others as well (natively). > Gtk+ is also cross-platform: Windows, BeOS, Unix, and soon Mac OS X. That's right, but wxWin does native win/mac/gtk api... and you still have the choice of developing for the gtk version, and then using the x-platform capabilities of gtk... but you can also choose to use the native os api. I also know that wxWindows abstract a lot of things besides the gui, like threads, sockets and stuff. Does gtk have this as well? > Personally, I never found Motif look appealing... Well, neither do I, but they chose to support it... ;) > > There exists wxPython and wxPerl... why not wxPHP? > > Any thoughts from the php-gtk people? > > I guess I need to know what you are asking before giving a > meaningful reply. I was not really asking, just for some thoughts on the subject. What I am curious about, is how do the capabilities of wxwindows and gtk+ compare to each other. What are the strong points of one versus the other (aside from the os-native lookandfeel versus gtk-lookandfeel, which is a matter of taste (and I like native lookandfeel better))? How do applications developed with gtk+ for a windows platform handle drag-and-drop from/to other programs? Are there installtion issues (with wxwin you don't need a complete set of common controls, just a lib with the wrappers, with gtk+, you must install the win-version of the gtk on the machine as well) One of the questions that could be useful: Is there room for two such projects, php-gtk and wxphp? Cheerio, Marc.