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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Win32 Port of Safari
From:       David Joham <djoham () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-01-09 19:29:09
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> Can anyone recommend a C++ GUI library for Win32, one that supports \
> lightweight  controls?

You could always use the mozilla engine and draw your lightweight controls \
with gecko and XUL...

/ducks :)

David

--- Alan Gutierrez <ajglist@izzy.net> wrote:
> George Staikos wrote:
> > On January 8, 2003 18:05, Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> > 
> > > Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mit, 08 Jan 2003, Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I hope I haven't offended anyone.
> > > > 
> > > > Not at all. Please let us know if you make progress.
> > > 
> > > Downloaded CoreFoundation form Darwin, as well as WebCore and \
> > > JavaScript core. Set up a VC project and started ifdef'ing. Most of \
> > > the xml directory has compiled. More problems in the render \
> > > directory. Still very promising. 
> > > There are some C++ compiler issues. It looks like VC++ found some \
> > > typos.
> > 
> > 
> > I wouldn't always be so sure.  VC++ has many known bugs.  You might \
> > have to  do some rather annoying things to get it to compile.
> 
> Oh, yes! VC++ has bugs! But it has caught a couple of stucts that were 
> predeclared as classes, for example. The code is being run through \
> another  compiler, which has it's own set of warnings, so VC++ might \
> catch some real  issues, if not bugs.
> 
> Almost all of the khtml/kjs/pcre now compiles. VC++ has only one major \
> feature  deficency. Apparently macros can take variable arguments in GCC. \
> Not so in VC++. 
> Otherwise, the changes needed to compile were really minor. Apple has \
> done a  great job of sparating KHTML from Qt.
> 
> I am considering using VCF to implement the guts of Kwq for Win32.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vcf/
> 
> Can anyone recommend a C++ GUI library for Win32, one that supports \
> lightweight  controls?
> 
> Alan Gutierrez
> 

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