[Help-smalltalk] Re: A few comments on the Gtk+ bindings

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > 2) change gtkview to connected, gtkobject to container.  gtkobject 
> > should answer "^self connected" (i.e. the gtkview) in all objects but 
> > BViewports; and BViewports should get the implementation you have in 
> > BList and BText (because even though there is duplicated code, existing 
> > hierarchies are there for a purpose :-).
>
> I suspect the existing hierarchy is wrong for gtk

I don't think so.

> , that things should
> move somewhat. Do you mean mean gtkview the method, or the instance
> variable? Ditto for gtkobject.

Both.

> I.e. the browser makes heavy use of Forms, which conflicts with the GTK
> 'gtk manages layout' concept: all the auto resizing and other widgets
> are not designed for that. Changing the browser to use OrderedForm
> rather than Form throughout makes this a lot easier: but you need to add
> the OrderedForm>>horizontal: message to be able to layout the browser
> windows properly.

That's fine for me as long as it still works for TK.  But note that I 
wrote the GTK placer exactly to make Blox/GTK easier.  After all users 
care about the appearance and not about what geometry manager is used (I 
understand though that it is a bit rough to have a VBox for the menu 
*and* a placer for the remaining widgets).  We've already had a similar 
discussion with Mike Anderson a few months ago.  :-)

> Whats in the patch you attached? An updated copy of my patch?

The bits that I applied to my development sources.

Ah, go ahead and rip the invocations of #font: from the browser as I 
have moved them to Blox/TK (yay).

Paolo