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Re: fltk and XForms compliance



On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 09:48:42AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Shaleh writes:
> > The author has stated that this is no longer a goal of his library. 
> > Also, many of the XForms apps that we use would require modifications
> > because the author of fltk did not re-create anything that took an X
> > type as an argument (like XEvent).  It is possible to make the XForm
> > apps work w/ fltk, however it would be a better idea to contact the
> > authors and see if they would port their apps to fltk.  fltk is smaller
> > ...
 
> That will be a problem with lyx as the upstream side is thinking about a
> switch anyway, but qt is the leading candidate there.

Someone should tell them about GTK, now that version 1.0 has been released.
A little bit of info about the distribution problems they will face if
the choose Qt (not Debian, nor RedHat will promote Qt-based apps) may
help too. 

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Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


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