Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[Florent Pillet]

On 2 févr. 04, at 21:54, Alex Perez wrote:

> There was a very lenghty discussion about this on the gnustep-discuss
> mailing list a month or two back. GNUstep will never draw native win32
> widgets under Windows. NeXT's OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows and 
> Apple's
> YellowBox did not either. They drew pseudo-windows-widgets. Run an 
> OS4.2
> app under Windows XP with the Luna theme and you'll see what I'm 
> talking
> about. What *IS* entirely possible is some sort of GTK-Wimp (Windows
> Impersonator) type-thing for GNUstep under Windows. GTK-Wimp is a GTK
> theme that draws native win32 widgets in place of the ugly GTKrap ones.

Either way is fine as long as applications look and behave like Windows 
apps. For examples menus looking (and positioned) like Windows menus, 
etc.



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