From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA15338; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:42:07 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15352 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:42:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mwinf0404.wanadoo.fr (smtp3.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.27]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h3B8g6909071 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:42:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from iliana (AStrasbourg-206-1-6-197.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.14.69.197]) by mwinf0404.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 166B638001BA for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 193u6f-0002hc-00 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:41:57 +0200 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:41:55 +0200 To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] labltk vs lablgtk Message-ID: <20030411084155.GA5834@iliana> References: <20030410171825.GA10613@swordfish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030410171825.GA10613@swordfish> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Sven Luther X-Spam: no; 0.00; sven:01 luther:01 dpt-info:01 u-strasbg:01 caml-list:01 labltk:01 lablgtk:01 0600,:01 gushee:01 widgets:01 lacking:01 gui:01 toolkits:01 paned:01 western:99 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners