Re: GNUstep on MS Windows

[Adam Fedor]

On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Gregory John Casamento 
wrote:

> As I said previously, unless we change the paradigm by which we are 
> drawing the
> views and handling events we cannot use the natvie widgets.  I 
> honestly don't
> see this happening in the short term, if ever.  This is the same 
> reason GTK
> widgets cannot be used from GNUstep classes.  I'm not saying it's 
> impossible,
> just that it will require a certain amount of uphieval in the 
> architechture of
> GNUstep itself.

Just for reference, the original backend (long, long, long time ago) 
was structured similarly to what might need to be done, with a separate 
backend class for each gui class, each responsible for drawing itself 
and in some cases, handling events.  Besides the obvious code 
duplication, there's the subclassing problem - what if you wanted to 
subclass an NSButton? It's not possible in this case, at least not in 
an easy portable manner.