RE: win32 port

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 14:53 24.05.01 +0100, Sander Vesik wrote:
>On Thu, 24 May 2001, Hans Breuer wrote:
>
>> Sorry to say that my resources are limited. I'm doing all this 
>> in my spare time. Additional: may I suggest you take a look at the
>> gimpwin-dev archives, to get an impression on how much work it
>> would be to support gtk-devel binary packages for win32.
>> 
>> >It';s not as if there was an infinite amount of time left until the freeze
>> I was expecting an api freeze to or shortly after GUADEC, but since
>> than my expectation isn't growing but shrinking ...
>> 
>> >so making use of developers time might just be a good thing. 
>> Maybe I'm just too ego-centric, but with me making binary snapshots,
>> I can only see making use of one's developers time: mine.
>> 
>
>Does it build reliably?
>
Nope. Almost every cvs update requires some action to be taken, to make it
build again. Additional there are quite some 'minor' issues to be
resolved like:

from the thread "Re: New default theme":

At 10:30 06.05.01 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
>Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> writes:
>> [...] 
>> - the checkboxes and radio buttons are drawn as white and 
>>   gray squares. Is this by design or is it a backend issue ?
>
>Backend issue. The check/radio buttons are pretty "normal" looking.
>Probably something to do with with the Win32 implementation of
>stipples which are used here to draw the components of the indicator.
> 
That rings a bell. From Tor's status website:

http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/oldstatus-20001007.html

"Stippled GCs now work partially in GDK. The only visible difference in
 GIMP is that guidelines now have the correct appearance. (If you don't
 know what a guideline is, try dragging the mouse out into the image
 from the top and left rulers in an image view.) I will still work on this, to
 make it work correctly with stipples and tiles of any size."

Is it possible to overload the check/radio buttons via rc-file
as well ? This would give me some more time to understand and implement
stipples and tiles ...

>If yes, then having a script that builds and uploads it shouldn't be a
>problem. If no then that is something that needs urgent fixing. I didn't
>mean to imply you personally have to do it.
>
This sounds like you (or your employer ? :-) have some resources to share. 
Any real help with Gtk/win32 would indeed be highly appreciated.

Regards,
	Hans

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