Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

[Jim C. Brown]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:03:12PM -0700, John R. wrote:
> On 7/8/06, Oliver Gerlich <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >Is wxC still under active development? The CVS version seems to be quite
> >old, and I also couldn't find any documentation.
> >
> 
> Well it wouldn't be the first unmaintained batch of code added to
> QEMU... Slirp is the example that comes to mind. In fact I think the
> QEMU developers are the de facto maintainers of the Slirp codebase.
> 

I believe that it is still being used in other language bindings such as 
Eiffel, Haskell, or Ocaml.

> >So I think we should either just use GTK, or make Qemu ready for
> >integration of C++ GUI code (and use one of the common GUI toolkits), or
> 
> It seems pretty clear that C++ is a non-starter.
> 
> >add an interface for external GUIs (and run the GUI as an external
> >process, written in Python or Perl or the like).
> >
> 
> This is already possible via command line options and accessing the
> monitor via perl expect or python expect. Of course an API would be
> easier to use and less likely to break. I'd certainly prefer an
> out-of-process GUI to admitting C++.
> 

I agree with you here.

> I'm not sure what the issue is with just using GTK. That's what the
> nonpareil HP calculator emulator uses for the same reason: Eric
> dislikes C++.
> 

Mainly that GTK works only on X and Windows, and that it lacks native Windows 
widgets.

> -- John.
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