At 12:39 pm -0800 30/10/02, Guy Harris wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:03:18PM +0100, ewitness - Ben Fowler wrote:
>> Is there an Aqua or a Cocoa-ethereal project?
>
>None that I know of. (The two projects would presumably be the same,
>given that the non-GUI parts of Ethereal use UNIX APIs; I assume it's
>difficult, if not impossible, to use Carbon GUI APIs and UNIX APIs, but
>presumably you can combine Cocoa and UNIX.)
The best working example would be the combination of Cocoa and Mozilla,
(Fizilla) which has brought us Chimera that uses unix networking
code and Aqua/Quartz rendering. (Not everyone is enamoured of the
Mozilaa project, mind ...)
>...the only two GUIs for which there's support in the current CVS tree are
>GTK+ 1.2[.x] and GTK+ 2.x; ...
Is this a permanent thing? Alternatively, do you plan on adding further
GUI support, or using a framework such as wxWindows which has support
for multiple GUIs?
> > If not are there any known difficulties (in the way that
>> Cocoa-Gimp seems to be a non-runner).
>
>I assume by "Cocoa-Gimp" you mean "Cocoa-GTK+"; I presume a port of the
>GIMP to use Aqua/Cocoa would be done with a port of GTK+.
I did mean a Cocoa port of the Gimp (which is not on because Gimp 1.x
has GTK too deeply woven into its roots); though a sourceforge project
to implement GTK in Cocoa (and which would presumeably carry the
Gimp along) has been mooted, but currently has nil support. Perhaps
some attempt should be made to breathe life into it.
>I have not at all looked into what difficulties there might be.
>
>The difficulties would probably be different from those with GTK+, as we
>wouldn't be implementing the exact semantics of GTK+; instead, we'd be
>implementing higher-level GUI semantics. ...
Would you accept patches intended to create such a product? If not,
is this because there are better priorities? Or a better way of doing
things? Assuming that ethereal works under XDarwin (and its presence in
the Fink system suggests that it does) then you might want to say
GTK only for the foreseeable future.
Ben.
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