Re: [Gnash-dev] gtkglext, et al

[Rob Savoye]

Bastiaan Jacques wrote:

> Perhaps after you've merged the frontend library, we can determine whether
> or not moving to gtkmm/gtkglextmm will be worth the effort.

  Correct. Since Gnash's GUI toolkit usage is pretty light, (mouse and 
keyboard events, a window to render in, and a control menu), it may not 
be worth the time when there is so much else to be working on. Plus the 
GTK part of the new library already works. :-)

  At the same time there probably is an urge to give Gnash a much 
better user experience, so it might be worth adding preferences dialog 
boxes, and more complex UI components. At that time it might be worth 
then using the C++ APIs instead. I'm not a GUI programmer (I'm an 
embedded systems engineer by background) so this GUI stuff is all new to 
me. I'm much more comfortable reading binary opcodes and hacking 
assembler code than GUI programming. :-)

  I'd love somebody whose brain is more GUI oriented than mine to take 
over the GUI layout and redesign... and make the Standalone player more 
like a traditional desktop application.

        - rob -