From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA10362 for caml-red; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 23:17:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA23642 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 01:22:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail6.svr.pol.co.uk (mail6.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.212]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f050MbL19394 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 01:22:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from modem-79.molybdenum.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.36.207] helo=baby) by mail6.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 14EKeQ-0000Er-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 00:22:34 +0000 Message-ID: <001001c076af$bf8e43e0$cf24883e@baby> From: "Jonathan Coupe" To: "Chris Hecker" , References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010104131022.00ba0d30@shell16.ba.best.com> Subject: Re: lablgtk for Win32 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:37:55 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Chris Heckewr wrote "In general, while I'm all for cross platform gui libraries in theory, I'm coming to the conclusion that they're just not ready for production work. Your app is huge because it's not taking advantage of any of the built in controls, it's slow to display because it's huge and because it draws all the controls itself, you can't just distribute a single exe because it needs a zillion dlls (or you end up staticly linking the 5 MB of gui dlls), and it's sloppy looking because things aren't tunable to be "just right". Not sure what to do about it, though" People who have worked with it have recommended wxWindows to me as a cross-platform solution that works fairly well. I don't how many OS's it covers. It's usable from C++ and Python at the moment, but maybe it's a sign that reasonable performance is possible. (I think wx apps do tend to be on the large side though.) Jonathan Coupe