Chris: I'll try to address all three of your mails from yesterday here. On Jun 29, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Christian Seberino wrote: > wx uses GTK under the hood...at least on Unix and Linux. > > Can anyone see any problems //down the road// with using wx as far > as losing benefits a pure GTK app would have? There are two sides to this question, really. One reflected by your previous questions, the issue of integration, and then the other of toolkit niceness. On the integration, I'm not 100% sure. GNOME integration, to me, means providing the appropriate .desktop files so the app shows up in GNOME's menus, using GNOME-style icons, following the HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) as much as possible, potentially using gconf for storing preferences, respecting GNOME's setting for the default web browser and email program, etc. In general, plain GTK apps come close enough that it doesn't matter whether they were specifically for GNOME. Also, lot of that can be accomplished with wx, but not necessarily as easily. And if you're following GNOME HIG, then you aren't following the Windows or Apple UI guidelines very closely (some elements of that wx will handle, but there's a lot that it can't). The other side is toolkit niceness. The benefit a pure GTK+ app has that wxWidgets doesn't is GTK+. GTK+ provides a good selection of expressive, high-level widgets that are capable of fairly incredible behavior out of the box. wxWidgets goes to a lowest-common-denominator, and makes you program these excellent widgets through an API that reeks of Win32 and MFC. I realize this probably isn't what you're asking, but it is a quite pertinent point when it comes to programmer sanity. Where I work, I'm working on a GUI with GTKmm, and some colleagues are working on another program using wx. Their frustration level with getting the widgets to work and do what they want is much higher. Also, wx forces GTK to abandon its native container-based widget layout model (one of GTK+'s huge benefits) in favor of a Windows-like position-and-size model, controlled with size managers. So there's a lost benefit immediately. Down the road? That one still applies as you have to maintain your code. Also, since wxWidgets has a design that makes some assumptions from the Win3.1/Win95 era (in my somewhat limited experience with it through wxPython), it feels like it won't let you easily take advantage of further UI developments as the come very easily. Just my $0.02... - Michael _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
