[Re: [lazarus] GTK Dependencies in CONTROLS.PP, VCLGLOBALS.PP]

[Michal Bukovjan]

The same was for me. I, too, am/was used to Win32 API. I was brave enough to
begin to study GLib/GTK and found out :

1. It is quite simple in many ways (not in all ways, though).
2. The biggest advantage is - it is Open Source. If you wonder how certain
things are accomplished, and understand C code, you can look inside and see.
3. Many thinks are designed or implemented the same way as in Win32 (device
contexts, pens, brushes).
4. After a while you realize, how Win32 API is lame for its handles, messages,
etc. and understand, among other things, how the Win32 -> Win64 transition
will be difficult.

Just my opinion.

Michal Bukovjan

Pascal Dutilleul <pduti at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> In fact that's the reason why I'm hesitate to jump into the lazarus
> project.  I don't know a thing about GTK, so I should first look a bit
> to that library before I could start to participate.  It would be much
> easier for me if I could use win32 api.  On the other hand, I like to
> use lazarus under linux, so finally I should learn GTK a bit, I guess
> ...
> 
> Pascal
> 
> --- "Jeffrey A. Wormsley" <daworm at cc.net> wrote:
> > On 8/1/99, at 10:37 PM, Michael A. Hess wrote: 
> > 
> > > Let's try to get all the bugs
> > > cleaned up and
> > > working with one API before getting things to
> > confused.
> > 
> > Starting early seemed like a good way to
> > go.  As it is right
> > now, everyone is concentrating on linux gtk.  Even
> > winbloze gtk is getting
> > something of a short shrift.  Since I am much more
> > familiar with the win32
> > environment than gtk in either flavor, it seemed to
> > make some sense to me
> 
> 
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