From senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com!localhost.loopback!not-for-mail Thu Mar 21 11:22:25 2002 From: sam@malfunction.screaming.net (Sam Dennis) Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction Subject: Re: [Inform] Map creation utility Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A (very) poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 18 References: <20011212221521.10210.00002441@mb-cl.aol.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@127.0.0.1 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:47:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-1-232.5800-6.access.uk.worldonline.com Message-ID: <3c184f7c_2@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com> X-Trace: 13 Dec 2001 06:49:32 GMT, ppp-1-232.5800-6.access.uk.worldonline.com Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com!localhost.loopback!not-for-mail Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu rec.arts.int-fiction:87948 Robotboy8 wrote: >>> If the target >>> isn't Windoze users, though, I would reccommend a program for Gnome called >>> GLADE. It works sort of like VB but generates C/C++ code which _might_ be >>> ported to Windoze. I say might because it may well rely on gtk+. I'm not >>> sure, it's been several months since I last used it. >> >>I don't know anything about GLADE, but it's maybe worth mentioning that >>a program requiring gtk+ does not necessarily preclude its being ported >>to Windows. > > I understand that. However, it all depends on how _easily_ portable it should > be, not how just how potentially portable. And from what I've heard, GTK+ > would be much harder to port than, say, OpenGL. Actually, last time I checked, most GTK+ code (including that produced by Glade) doesn't even require any changes to compile in cygwin; the Win32 ports are a little buggy, however.