Re: MrEd and wxWindows

[wil <wil@dready.org>]

Thanks Matthew.
I am currently embedding MzScheme into a C++ app, the reason why I am 
looking at MrEd now is that I want x-platform GUI. I cannot find any 
documentation for embedding MrEd functionality into another application. 
Well, I don't really want
the editor, just the toolkit support so that I can have scheme scripts 
generating UI elements.

Again, any pointer would be greatly appreciated.

wil.

On 28 Sep 04:21 Matthew Flatt wrote:
>  Quoting wil:
>  > I understand that MrEd is using a modified old version of the 
>wxWindows
>   > library.
>   Yes.
>   > How difficult would it be to port this to use the GTK+ library?
>  > Compare that to switching the wxWindows to a current version (some
>  2.2.x)?
>   It would be difficult, but porting to GTK+ instead of the current
>  Widget library is probably much easier than upgrading wxWindows.
>   One reason is that many of our wxWindows rennovations have to do with
>  drawing contexts at the raw X level. Another reason is that our branch
>  of wxWindows is friendly to MzScheme's garbage collector. Nevertheless,
>  there are bound to be complex problems related to the interaction among
>  threads, eventspaces, and garbage collection.
>   Matthew
>