[ghemical-devel] Re: about versions and organizing tasks

[Jean Bréfort]

Le jeudi 13 avril 2006 à 14:49 +0300, Tommi Hassinen a écrit :
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> 
> > I already have a mozilla plugin in gchemutils. It has not many feature
> > at present, but I intend to extend it when time permits. It is based on
> > GtkGLExt and OpenBabel.
> > I do not see why an OpenGL-only plugin make things easier. If you need
> > buttons or other controls, any toolkit will work.
> 
> This sounds very interesting, thanks!  :)  I'll study a bit more about 
> this.
> 
> My idea about an OpenGL-only plugin was about portability ; the NPAPI 
> documentation says one should really do a three versions of a plugin : 
> Windows + Unix + MacOS. I guess that the mozilla-bonobo converter is 
> intended to work with a "Unix" build of mozilla only (I'm just really 
> surprised if the converter is more universal!). Perhaps one can still make 
> mozilla-bonobo and it's components work on top of cygwin at some point 
> (and the same is true for Fink/MacOS?)?

Hmm, I don't use mozilla-bonobo anymore, and, as bonoboui should be
deprecated in a near future, it does not seem a good idea to use it.
I directly use the GtkPlug/GtkSocket API. I do not know how it works on
win32 (I suspect it does not work).

> Happy Easter,

Thanks, and the same for you ;-)

Jean