Re: GTK for MacOS

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Arnaud Masson <dev2@iodp.com> writes:

> >To sum up, if we think we can add a port to the GTK+ tree without
> >creating maintanence problems for ourself, we'll do it.
> 
> I have almost changed nothing in GLib and GTK, but I have begun a full
> rewrite of GDK for MacOS (like the BeOS port) and it seems to works.
> Is it the right thing to do ?

If you get the HEAD version of GTK from CVS.

 http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html

you'll see that the way it works now is that there is a directory 
structure with:

 gdk/          - port independent stuff
 gdk/x11       - X11 stuff
 gdk/win32     - Windows stuff
 
The idea is to avoid duplication for header files, and for parts
of GDK that don't depend on the windowing system.

So, you would create
 
 gdk/macos

And then you "only" have to implement the equivalent set of functions
to what you find in gdk/win32.

Note that the interfaces between the "port independent" and
"port dependent" parts of GDK are not fixed yet, so if you find
anything that would be more convenient a different way, don't
hesitate to send suggestions.

Regards,
                                        Owen