Re: GTK+3 win32/64 build environment

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/13/2013 07:37 PM, tarn...@tarnyko.net wrote: > As a majority of you told me it was so easy and effective to cross-compile > from Linux, rather than doing it navitely on Windows, I finally felt like > trying it. > > Well, after some hacking... you were right ^^. > > I extracted my GTK+3

Re: Is GTK+ a cross-platform toolkit ?

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Torrie
On 03/04/2013 06:03 PM, tarn...@tarnyko.net wrote: > (We're speaking policy here, but to support my point in technical terms : > - my reusable GTK+3 build environment : > http://www.tarnyko.net/repo/gtk3_build_system/ ; > - sample bundle I have produced : http://www.tarnyko.net/en/?q=node/20)

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 08/04/2012 07:41 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> and yet another case of "i'm so nervous and irritated by criticism of our >> design decisions that i'll resort to calling people stupid" ... > > design has nothing to do with it, sorry to disappoint the conspiracy > theorists. > > just another ca

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-22 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/22/2012 04:20 AM, John Emmas wrote: > That's been my experience anyway. With no facts stated to support your response, it is merely your opinion. My opinion is also just an opinion, however I believe the points in support of my opinion are factual and logical (which you haven't refuted). C

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-21 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/21/2012 06:50 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > One thing that us involved in the development of gtk should resume > doing are the biweekly IRC meetings, and send the minutes on the > making list; this at least would increase awareness of the changes > planned or being developed in the platform. A

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-21 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/21/2012 07:44 AM, John Emmas wrote: > Perhaps an answer would be to play down the mailing lists and IRC > (for users) and encourage more use of the GTK+ forum. The great > advantages of forums are:- My vote is e-mail or nntp instead of forums. > > 1) They keep a reasonably ordered record

Re: Fully winding down my involvement in GTK+

2012-07-20 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/19/2012 06:54 AM, Kristian Rietveld wrote: > Also, I struggle to identify with the community these days -- that > is, I do not agree how GTK+ is being developed. Discussions appear to > mainly happen on IRC, which I can impossibly follow, contrary to on > the mailing list; Now that you ment

Re: what is Broadway structure and theory

2012-03-07 Thread Michael Torrie
On 03/07/2012 08:02 PM, subhero wrote: > I'm very interested in Broadway, but the material very little about > Broadway??even GTK +'s official website also did not mention this > knowledge, I really want to know about the structure and principle of > the Broadway, and what role was it play in GTK+.

Re: RFC: new features

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/14/2012 10:26 AM, Stefan Sauer wrote: > I agree that showing the tips as a startup dialog is somewhat annoying. > On the other hand it would be useful to have a way to tell users about > neat tricks and stuff and is not totally obvious. Sure, all of this can > be documented in the manual, but

Re: RFC: new features

2012-01-13 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/13/2012 12:52 AM, Stefan Sauer wrote: > TIP-DIALOG > I've seen several implementations in aps (e.g. gimp has one). I did one > for buzztard. It shows a random message from the tips list. I don't know of anyone who actually finds such a dialog useful to be honest. Many users I know sigh whe

Re: Gtk-OSX

2010-08-30 Thread Michael Torrie
On 08/30/2010 08:51 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > The logic is that despite its "*nix-type" infrastructure, this is how > Apple has intended ISV's to distribute software, and as a result, its > what users expect. You will rarely (if ever) see an OS X application > that has a list of prequisites other tha

Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

2010-08-16 Thread Michael Torrie
On 08/16/2010 12:54 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Why would you want to use directfb when a tiny X server is the >> same footprint and much better supported? > > Which one are you talking about ? Kdrive ? > How good is it supported, especially on non-x86 platforms ? Correct. kdrive is now part o

Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

2010-08-16 Thread Michael Torrie
On 08/16/2010 07:22 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > hmm, isnt v3.x going to drop directfb support ? well ... Why would you want to use directfb when a tiny X server is the same footprint and much better supported? directfb is redundant. I hope you're not using it. It reimplements (poorly) everythin

Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

2010-08-15 Thread Michael Torrie
On 08/15/2010 06:41 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> because loading tons of small libraries is actually going to cost >> much more in terms of resources (memory, I/O, linking and loading >> time) > Really ? did you measure it ? Can you prove that it doesn't? Until you can, there's no logical reaso

Re: Calling gtk code from two different threads

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Torrie
Raja Mukherji wrote: > I have a problem where I have to call gtk code, including two > gtk_main's, from two different threads and was wondering if there's any > way to do that _without_ calling gdk_thread_enter/gdk_thread_ > leave. There is not, as GTK requires locking to access globals structur

Re: Gtk+ problem with time-consuming threads

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Torrie
patkhor wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to add GUI for my application and I choose to do it with Gtk+. > I've asked on this forum before about multithreading, but I still can't get > it right. I found few examples on how to use gthread on the web, but none of > them answers my question. While I supp

Re: Gtk+ problem with time-consuming threads

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Torrie
Tor Lillqvist wrote: > You can't use GTK+ from multiple threads on Windows. That is just how > it is. It is a consequence of GTK+ originally being written just for > X11. I always thought it was because of how the Windows event model works. Back in the horrible old MFC days I remember having to se

Apparent deficiency in GtkBuilder signal connections and grouped widgets

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Torrie
I am writing to the devel list after first posting to the regular list about using GtkBuilder and grouped widgets like a group of radio buttons. The only post that really spoke to my problem mentioned that there really isn't a way with GtkBuilder to deal nicely with groups of widgets like radio bu

Re: Translucent Scrollbars

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Torrie
Lieven van der Heide wrote: > Well, isn't the whole point of scrollbars to be able to scroll to > stuff that's otherwise hidden (behind something else)? I don't see why > it would be a problem to show a piece of the content that would > otherwise be hidden at all. As long as scrolling to the sides

Re: gtk-x11 on top of win32, experiences.

2006-10-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 20:11 +0200, Jesús López wrote: > Hi, and greetings to the developer force, beatifull work. > > The following is about compiling GTK targeting win32 binaries, but > insiting in the use of a X11 backend. GTK should compile and run fine on windows under cygwin, targeting X11

Re: Design decisions for GLib and GTK+ on Win32

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Torrie
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 22:33 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > - Can the support for 256-colour (palettized) display mode be dropped > from GTK+ HEAD? I have no idea whether it even works currently, and I > can't test as my display adapter doesn't even offer a 256-colour mode > in Display Properties.

Re: gtk file open dialog usability.

2006-06-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:52 +0200, Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote: > 2006/6/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Anyone except me also disappointed by it? > > Any way how we can have old file open dialog back? > > code not complain :) BS. Before anyone can code anything, especially i

Re: Looking beyond 2.10

2006-06-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 18:26 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > I'm about to pick Qt as a toolkit for a personal project just because of > > that. > > Good luck. I was in the same boat as Hubert. I also ended up picking Qt. Although I like GTK much better, Qt was the best choice given the circums

Re: GTK+ >> Cocoa Native Port

2006-05-21 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 09:36 +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote: > Given that there is still work to be done on the HEAD branch I would > say time would be better spent on working on stabilizing that and to > work on features than to backport to an old version of Mac OS X. If the port can be made to

Re: [Win32] Great enhancement of native look & feel for gtk+ win32. (with patch files)

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 14:05 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: > > I haven't personally reviewed the patches yet but you mention changing > > the color and look of a few widgets. Will these changes still work if > > the theme is switched from the normal luna theme to one of the other > > luna themes

Re: [Win32] Great enhancement of native look & feel for gtk+ win32. (with patch files)

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Torrie
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 00:08 +0800, 洪任諭PCMan wrote: > Hello everyone, > I've done some imrpovement on the look & feel of gtk+ win32. > GIMP now looks more similiar to other native Win32 apps. > > Here are some exciting screenshots: > http://pcman.sayya.org/gtk_win32/ These look excellent to me. T

Re: gtk-quartz for osx

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Torrie
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 18:04 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > It seems like from this long thread that what's needed is not > native GTK+ for OS X, but rather a binary distribution of native > GTK+ for OS X... Seems like the Gimp.app[1] people have figured it out sort of. They package the Gimp with the

Re: gtk-quartz for osx

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Torrie
Richard Hult wrote: It uses a few functions that are not available in 10.3. It should be fairly easy to make it build in 10.3 or even older. New functions as in new carbon functions? I can't remember all my mac technologies off-hand, but cocoa is Objective-C, right? C apps must use carbon?

Re: Gtk + OSX

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Torrie
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:15 +1100, electroteque wrote: > What is Quartz.h and where would it be ? locate Quartz.h doesnt tell > me anything. It's an OS X-supplied header file most likely. I have no idea where you'd get ahold of it. The appropriate place to ask, though, would be on the darwin

Re: gtk-quartz for osx

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Torrie
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:19 +1100, electroteque wrote: > Can someone tell me if this is still in development or available to try > out ?? > > http://gtk-quartz.sourceforge.net/ No I don't think so. The only active gtk on OS X effort is now in the head gtk CVS. There is a wiki regarding it's de

Re: compiling glib on OSX.

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 01:15 +1100, electroteque wrote: > my steps before that was > > ln -s /usr/share/aclocal/gtk-doc.m4 /sw/share/aclocal/gtk-doc.m4 ^^ Since you are using fink, why not just configure fink to build from source (to grab the latest pr

Re: A springs and struts widget for GTK+

2005-08-16 Thread Michael Torrie
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