OpenEuphoria

Re: EuGTK / wxEuphoria - a modest proposal

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Nov 23, 2004
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Kenneth Rhodes wrote:
> 
> I seem to recall Matt Lewis speaking quite favorably about EuGTK
> before Irv posted the unified Windows/Linux wrapper.  Now that 
> Irv seems intent on abandoning EuGTK, it would tickle me pink
> if Matt would drop WxEuphoria and pick up the EuGTK project
> perhaps together with Mike Sabal?

I wouldn't count on it. :)  IMHO, Win32Lib is the best library for 
doing Win32, and EuGTK is the best for doing Linux.  I don't think
EuGTK is so great for doing cross platform, because very few people have
GTK installed on windows machines.  Also, from the traffic around here,
it's not easy to get it installed, either, and, IIRC, it doesn't always
use native widgets, which I believe is a big drawback.

So while either of these two libraries are great for single platform
work (although I haven't really used EuGTK much), they leave something
to be desired for cross platform development (OK, win32lib leaves 
everything to be desired...).  wxWidgets is the best cross platform
library that I've seen.  The downside is that there's a dll/so to be
installed.  The good thing is that it's easy to install, and uses native
widgets.  The syntax is pretty close to win32lib, which I [mostly] like,
and should make it relatively easy for people to make the switch.
 
> I suppose stranger things have happened.
> 
> Three cheers for Mike Sabal's willingness to support EuGTK.

I second that.

Matt Lewis