Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup window size: a suggestion From: Robert Collins To: Don Dwiggins Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4f9Rb7N9sxcPT/DNSHJp" Date: 11 Sep 2002 01:24:27 +1000 Message-Id: <1031671467.22457.22.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-4f9Rb7N9sxcPT/DNSHJp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 01:02, Don Dwiggins wrote: > I'm not familiar with the code and issues surrounding setup, but I just h= ad > a thought: >=20 > It may be overkill for the problem, but how about using wxWindows for the > setup GUI (http://www.wxwindows.org/)? It has layout managers to handle > resizing, and there are tools available to help design the windows (altho= ugh > I've found in using wxPython that it's pretty easy, using the managers, t= o > compose a window from a pencil sketch. In fact, one could prototype the > application in wxPython, then do the final coding in C++ to eliminate the > Python dependency.) WxWindows is waaay to heavy for setup. If I was interested in using a different toolkit to win32, it'd be fltk (for setup, not as a general rule). Thanks for the thought though. Rob --=-4f9Rb7N9sxcPT/DNSHJp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA9fg6rI5+kQ8LJcoIRAq1MAJ9AiZRYB0bZgfpsOoRgaPNgUMAFlACfX7JN a7artzAiMD25k3xJncMN85E= =YVuo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4f9Rb7N9sxcPT/DNSHJp--