[Mono-list] OT: GTK+ on windows

[Daniel Morgan]

I don't think static linking is a good idea for something as big and complex
as gtk+ and gtk#.

Have you looked at the pretty GTK+ 2.0 runtime for windows from dropline?
http://www.dropline.net/jade/download.html
They even have a pretty GTK+ 2.0 runtime for linux too.

GTK+ allows it to be themeable and customable.  However, the default look
and feel of gtk+ is ugly.

How does one customize gtk+ to look nicer?

-----Original Message-----
From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com]On
Behalf Of Jaroslaw Kowalski
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:11 AM
To: mono-list@ximian.com
Subject: [Mono-list] OT: GTK+ on windows


This is VERY Off Topic, but some of you guys seem to be very familiar with
GTK, so maybe you can clarify things for me:

I've installed GTK# and GTK+ on Windows and have some questions.
The whole idea of having GTK+/GTK# on Windows is cool, but:

1. Is it possible to statically compile GTK+ programs (using C, not C#) so
they wouldn't require few megs of DLLs? I assume that by static linking only
functions that are actually used would get linked in.

2. As a long-time Windows user, I don't like the way GTK+ renders menus,
buttons and scrollbars. Is it possible to:

- use standard windows menus and menu bars (perhaps with owner-draw options)
instead of custom-drawn? No matter how much time you're going to spend
emulating windows l&f, you're never gonna get it. MS seems to change the
feel of menus with every win version and by using owner draw mechanism you
can adhere to it.

- use standard windows buttons instead of GTK buttons. You can also use
owner draw here, and it gives you the correct behaviour.

3. As a long-time Win32 programmer I have some questions:

- Is it possible to use standard windows colors. There are 2 Win32 APIs
GetSysColor() and GetSysColorBrush() that can be used to achieve this.

- Is it possible (in general) to use CreateWindow()-based controls as
widgets with GTK+ windows. In particular is it possible to use windowed
ActiveX controls?

Jarek


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