Re: Emacs and GTK.

[Jan D.]

William M. Perry wrote:

> "Eric M. Ludlam" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > > > > "Jan D." <address@hidden> seems to think that:
> >  [ ... ]
> >
> > > It looks like more work than I initially thought, but it will take the 
> > > time it takes.  I was thinking of getting GTK in the same way as Motif 
> > > is in emacs, but since GTK does not use Xt, and really insists on doing 
> > > everything its own way, that is out.  GTK really requires it's own event 
> > > loop for instance.
> >  [ ... ]
> >
> > I wrote an app that has several Xt interfaces, plus a GTK/Gnome
> > interface, and it doesn't use the gtk event loop.  It's a little
> > stale now, so I don't know if it compiles with the latest goodies,
> > but it might be worth a look.
> >
> > http://gnutalk.sf.net


Thanks.  It is basically what I am using (minus the XFlush).  The 
problems I saw was incomplete redisplay when taking up the file dialog 
and then press cancel.  I thought this was a GTK <-> X problem, but I 
now see Motif has the same problem (I will check it out).

Also, I get a lot of äassertion failed' from GTK.  It tries to find the 
GtkWindow matching an X window, but since there are none, it puts out 
the 'assertion failed' stuff.


> >
>
> The problem with this is that it will not (likely) work with GTK 2.0 when
> it is released, and GTK support on other window systems just won't work.
> It would be nice to be able to have Emacs use GTK on MS-Windows, X-Windows,
> BeOS, and MacOS directly.


Good point.  The mixed X/GTK event loop is OK for development on X, but 
for it to work on other platforms, one must use "pure" GTK.

        Jan D.