At 14:11 17.12.01 -0700, Nathan C Summers wrote: >On 17 Dec 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Nathan C Summers <rockwlrs@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Some horrible kludge could also be dreamed up involving GTKPlugs. That >> > would move the windowing system dependance down to the GDK level, but >> > would also make things ineligant, and it would be difficult to get it to >> > work in all cases, especially with an unreliable plug-in. >> >> GtkPlug is an X11-only thing just as GtkSocket; it is not implemented >> on any other platform that GDK has been ported to. > >Oh yes, I remember that now. After I rejected GtkPlug I forgot all the >reasons why. :) > >I'm disapointed they didn't make it more windowing system agnostic. >Windows, at least, is perfectly capible of something like >GtkPlug/GtkSocket. > There is some slowly rotting patch to implement them at least on Windows, but my priority to force it's inclusion isn't very high. Partly because of the lack of a real use case and partly because of additional cross-platform requirements mentioned in the thread http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58541 Hans -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert
