Ant wrote:
> Sorry, I have no idea, I've limited resources (time) and cannot go
> there... GTK for windows is part of the "official" GTK release but
> seems to be maintain by 1 person only... :( (if the guy has a P4 at
> 3.06 he will never think on performance...)

I have mailed this guy once, offering him help him fix Tablet support if
he helped me through the code. The bug happens because in X, input
device support is unified, and in Windows tablet support is separate. So
events get triggered twice in most cases in Windows GTK - once with
mouse source, once with tablet source and pressure information. To avoid
it, one has either to listen to mouse only, and every time check tablet,
whether the pen is in use, pressure, and so on; or, listen to tablet,
and implement careful event filtering: tablet would may send events more
often, and usually earlier than the mouse, thus allowing for better
resolution - but one has to filter corresponding mouse events out then.
But since his version has a bug, it's not possible to draw a solid line
with a tablet in GIMP, because it switches mode between mouse and tablet
about a few dozen times per second.

So, i got no answer. :( I think i should have written in Finnish. Even
better: i think i should just ignore him. He will not think of anything.
I'm ignoring GIMP altogether, i don't know whether the bug has been
fixed or not.

> I believe (not sure) there is a version of GTK for the Mac (should be
> easy for OS 10)

They are exact ports of the Unix GTK, that is they, by an old Unix
tradition, do all the drawing in the application domain. This is not
only something uncomfortable for Windows users, but even really
irritating for Mac users. What i actually meant is not a port, but
rather a *clone*, which would be a mostly compatible replacement for GTK.

Sure, much work, one needs more interested people.

-eye

In article <bnmo81$10mm$2@digitaldaemon.com>, Ilya Minkov says...
>
>Ant wrote:
>> Sorry, I have no idea, I've limited resources (time) and cannot go
>> there... GTK for windows is part of the "official" GTK release but
>> seems to be maintain by 1 person only... :( (if the guy has a P4 at
>> 3.06 he will never think on performance...)
>
>I have mailed this guy once,
>
>So, i got no answer. :(

I kinda understand him: probably he receives hundreads of those
emails a week I bet you he reply to the first couple dozen and then
just give up...
Some of these popular projects with a small teams (1) have very
rispid messages saying "Don't ask me that...",
"ask this over there, not here", "I've nothing to do with such and such"...

Any way the project [GTK for windows] seems popular enough to have more the one maintainer, so some thing is going on there ... (?)

>irritating for Mac users. What i actually meant is not a port, but rather a *clone*, which would be a mostly compatible replacement for GTK.

I understand that, Walter stated once (don't make search the posts again)
that the best way (on his view) to have a D gui is to rewrite a good one
from another language in D, seems that your idea goes on the same direction
(maybe with different goals)

>
>Sure, much work, one needs more interested people.
>

No doub...
(but if you're going to have that much trouble make sure GTK is your best
choice before commiting)

Ant