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From: nospam2159@cs.au.dk (Peter von der Ahé)
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Subject: Re: Beta and GTK ?
Date: 09 Nov 1999 12:11:37 +0100
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>>>>> "EC" == Erik Corry <corry@mjolner.dk> writes:

 EC> The current (5.0) BETA system comes complete with all the source
 EC> code to the libraries including guienv, the library that BETA
 EC> programs use for the user interface.  Using the Motif code as an
 EC> example it should be possible to make a gtk version of this.

Implementing GTK support in the Mjolner BETA System in the
Lidskjalv/guienv library would be a really bad idea IMO.

I think the right approch would be to implement an interface in BETA
which translates the GTK object oriented API to BETA patterns.

You wouldn't gain much implementing just another backend for Lidskjalv
as a free version of Motif already exists.  The real gain would be
getting the GTK model, which I think is superior to Lidskjalv.

Cheers,
Peter