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[gtk-list] Re: widgets

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Sun Jun 29 02:57:59 1997

Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 02:57:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
To: GIMP ToolKit Mailing lista <gtk-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96Lrindlow.970629005523.761B-100000@nossenus>
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On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 christian.sunesson@abc.se wrote:

> 	Wouldn't it be cool if all the widgets were in their own dynamic 
> object files so gtk could load them with dl_open ?  That way it'd be
> possible to keep different sets of widgets for the same thing, they'd just
> look different.

It's possible now, you just dlopen() the file yourself, and call the
'gtk_classname_init()' function right after loading it.

I'm thinking it's not something people will be wanting to do tho

> 	Why doesn't gtk use resource files?

You mean those things that Windoze uses to hold all the information on a
dialog box/screen/menu? My guess is because nobody has added the option
yet (you just volunteered - we all salute you :-). 

-- Elliot					http://www.redhat.com/
What's nice about GUI is that you see what you manipulate.
What's bad about GUI is that you can only manipulate what you see.

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