Python and Gtk cross-platform?
Robert Kern
kern at caltech.edu
Tue Mar 7 20:53:16 EST 2000
In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003071711430.31413-100000 at us2.mayo.edu>,
Travis Oliphant <olipt at mayo.edu> writes:
>[Somebody else writes: --RTK]
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Are Python programs source code cross-platform between Linux and Win32 using
>> > the Gtk GUI toolkit? In other words, using the Gtk toolkit will Python
>> > programs run identically without changes on both platforms?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Gtk was designed for the X window system.
>>
>
> I don't think this is quite correct. Gtk was designed on top of GDK so
> that it could be ported if GDK were ported. There is a well-tested
> X-windows port of GDK, and a "beta" Win32 port.
And even better, someone has done a port of PyGTK to Win32, too.
http://theopenlab.uml.edu/pygtkwin/
Because of filesystem case (in)sensitivity issues, GTK.py has been renamed,
so you might have to modify application code.
[snip]
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Robert Kern
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