From: Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] labltk vs lablgtk
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:41:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030411084155.GA5834@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030410171825.GA10613@swordfish>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:18:26AM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:00:58PM +0200, Henri Dubois-Ferriere wrote:
> >
> > But since I'm going to live with this choice for quite a while, i'm
> > wondering what are the broad pros/cons between labltk and lablgtk?
> > does anything stick out as being specific to one or the other?
>
> Let's see ...
>
> * Tk has a limited selection of widgets. From what you said of your
> project, it may well have all you need, but it is lacking a few things
> that people seem to expect to find in "modern" GUI toolkits: spin
> buttons, paned windows, tabbed notebooks, tree displays ...
>
> * Last time I checked (several months ago), GTK was considered to be
> less-than-production-quality on Windows and MacOS, whereas Tk has been
> in use on those platforms for a long time.
>
> * (My impression is that) GTK has good Unicode support. Tk has had issues
> with i18n for some time. The latest versions may be up to par, but I'm
> not sure. Probably either would be fine for Western European
> languages; the problems I have heard of were mostly related to CJKV.
>
> * If you need to use raster graphics, you should be aware that Tk only
> has built-in support for GIF and PBM/PGM/PPM/PNM file formats. I'm not
> sure, but I would assume that GTK supports JPEG, PNG, and other modern
> formats.
lablgtk2 does also support SVG graphics now, and the AA fonts are really
worth it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 14:00 Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2003-04-10 16:51 ` Eric C. Cooper
2003-04-10 17:18 ` Matt Gushee
2003-04-10 17:41 ` scott
2003-04-10 19:26 ` Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2003-04-10 19:57 ` Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2003-04-11 8:41 ` Sven Luther [this message]
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