Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Anyone want to design dialogs?

[Dave F. <dav...@co...>]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:36 am, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 22 March 2004 at 23:17, Dave Fancella <dav...@co...> wrote:
> > Hmm.  Can't build.  :)  Says can't find -lwx_gtk_xrc or something like
> > that. Mandrake doesn't appear to provide any packages with the XRC stuff,
> > so I may have to go the hard route and build wxWidgets from scratch.  :(
>
> Once a very long time ago I thought I knew which wxThingy was what.
> I have the old crusty, built from scratch wxWindows 1.68e.  I see
> wxGTK 2.4.X available for Mandrake 9.X.  How does wxGTK relate to
> wxWidgets, if at all?  Is there a URL for whichever wxWidgets we're
> referring to?

Heh.  :)

wxWidgets == wxWindows.  Microsoft came along and bullied them, apparently.  
The name change literally happened within the last few weeks or month or so.  
So http://www.wxwidgets.org/ is the new place to go for the same old stuff.  
wxwindows.org is still valid, but I don't know how long it'll still be 
available.

wxGTK is the Unix port of wxWidgets.  I seem to recall it was started around 
the wx2.0 era, but I don't know exactly.  I didn't start fooling with it 
until just before 2.4 came out.  In any case, wxMotif is no longer 
maintained.

So, wxGTK packaged by one of Mandrake's buddies is just their package of 
wxWidgets, formerly wxWindows.  I installed it in a hurry to get wxPython 
going awhile back, and now I have some apps installed that depend on that 
package, so I can't just uninstall it without having dependency problems.  :(  
I wonder if the spec file Mandrake used is available somewhere.  Probably.  
wxPython, of course, is the python bindings around wxWidgets, formerly 
wxWindows, so we can use it as our GUI in python apps, thus rendering Tk or 
Tcl or whatever (I can't keep track of those T names, myself) more or less 
obsolete, but not yet the default GUI for python.

As far as I know, we're shooting to bring Jazz all the way up to wx2.4, since 
most of 2.0 is deprecated, and a great deal of 2.2 is also deprecated.  We 
can use stuff from 2.2, maybe from 2.0, but since it's all deprecated we'll 
wind up having to rewrite anyway when it's finally removed.  I think that 
with wx2.4, the pre-2.0 stuff finally became obsolete and was pulled from the 
library, although that may have happened sooner.  However, some of the 
surprising little functions that came from the pre-2.0 era are still hanging 
around for some reason, and more or less undocumented now.  Thankfully, 
they're still there right now so we can build Jazz.  :)

Dave

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