[lazarus] Maybe.... gtk2

[Florian Klaempfl]

matooo at email.si wrote:
> Last question on this topic! Otherwise everything is crystal clear.
> 
> Quoting Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:26:54 +0100 (CET)
>>matooo at email.si wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Quoting Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The gtk2 interface has not yet been started. The idea is, to
>>
>>inherit
>>
>>>>from
>>>>the gtk1 interface and just overload 
>>>
>>>overload or correct?
>>
>>overload
>>
>>TGtk2Object = class(TGtkObject)
>>
> 
> 
> Wouldn't it be simpler to retain names. Probably just some of my strange
> thoughts. Almoust any gcc software that respects changes can be compiled with
> --enable-gtk20?
> 
> Wouldn't it be easyer to take same logic and have gtk1 or gtk2 compile
> destination, (qt, win, gtk, gtk2). Overloading objects would demand overloaded
> and corrected components, while retaining would demand only to respect old
> definitions with adding or correcting new ones.
> 
> I probably missed there as much as possible.
> 
> 
>> 
>>
>>>>any procedure that needs some
>>>>adaptions. So, I think, a basic gtk2 interface can be created very
>>>>fast.
>>>>After that all the changes listed on www.gtk.org
>>>
>>>I downloaded all documents, but there's no changes specified just
>>
>>complete
>>
>>>API specification, is there maybe some document of changes to ease
>>
>>the
>>
>>>job. It wouldn't be easy to search every function and check it. So
>>
>>for
>>
>>>start it would be much nicer if some such document would exists.
>>>www.gtk.org doesn't contain anything like that.
>>
>>Sorry, it was gnome.org:
>>
>>http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-changes-2-0.html
>>
>>
>>
>>>>must be checked. And I
>>>>estimate, that this will take at least a full week of work.
>>>
>>>A bit too much to acomplish in one peace. but I think I can help at
>>
>>least
>>
>>>a bit
>>>
>>>Also I just finished fam implementation and basic object. Component
>>
>>will
>>
>>>be finished today. If that one is planned for lazarus I can upload it
>>>somewhere otherwise it will appear on my server after I find a time to
>>
>>set
>>
>>>him up again
>>
>>Normally, visual components go into lazarus and non visual components
>>go
>>into fpc.
>>
> 
> 
> ok, if fpc branch needs it, I have it :-)
> 
> 
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