"Uwe Bonnes" <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote in message 9hqllp$pak$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de">news:9hqllp$pak$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de... > Matthew Lake <mlake459@earthlink.net> wrote: > : What are the odds of getting windows controls out of wine? I'm looking for > : widgets that closely mimic windows common controls without the need for a > : monolithic window re-implamentation. > > : I have a unix port of a program and all I want is to use my current gui code > : with haveing to re-add all the windows stuff. I've tried using wine before > : (and sent in my patches to wine development for fixes I made) but with wine, > : it's all or nothing. I want to run file io natively, sockets natively and > : fork() natively (since that all currently works). I don't want to do a > : ground up re-write of the gui for Unix. > > Every widget set (Motif,GTK,KDE,Athena) is probably a "all or nothing" > But winelib allows you to use "io natively, sockets natively and fork()" > (native on Unix I think) while reusing the windows GUI stuff. > > Bye I know fork doesn't work. if you called fork from within a program using winelib, when that process ends, all windows associated with the the main processes become invalid. I tried using native unix fileio but that caused problem with the startup code for winelib. The "all or nothing" situation I suffered from is that any time I was using native unix call for anything that winelib provides intorduced conflects and instability in both the program and the libs. That and with native unix widgets, I'm not bound to a huge set of librarys that are likely not present on a target computer where Motif,GTK,KDE,Athena, etc are likely to be since Motif, KDE, GTK and Athena come with SCO, Solaris, Linux, etc. and are generally much smaller then WINE. Don't get me wrong here, WINE is an excellant project and hopefully in the next year or so, windows will no longer be necessary for general apps. I will try again to just use the widgets WINE provides since it has been about a year since my last attempt. Does anybody have any pointers on how to distrobute WINE in such a fasion to not need dozzens of support libs for just the common controls? (incase it does work) Matthew _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
