[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: GTK and Windows

["Grant Gayed" <grant_gayed@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm sure this could be made to work, but it would require changes to swt in
the area of building its native libraries (and possibly some changes
elsewhere once you got it up and running).  A POC was done previously to run
swt's gtk implementation on OSX and it worked reasonably well.

Wanting an app running on windows to look like a gtk app is definitely
unusual though, and I don't think that most users would prefer to have an
app appear consistent across platforms over having it appear consistent
within its running platform.  There are some apps out there that do the
cross-platform thing, but their motive is usually to not look like any
native widget set (eg.- they create a small set of very app-specific branded
widgets).

Grant


"Laurent Marchal" <lmarchal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to have SWT running with GTK for GUI library on Windows,
> instead of native windows widgets ?
> So i can use custom GTK themes/engines under windows and my application
> will have the same look and feel on every platform.
>
> Thanks