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Re: GnuCobol and GTK3+
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Brian Tiffin |
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Re: GnuCobol and GTK3+ |
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Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:38:18 -0400 |
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arch wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> I am interested in interfacing GnuCOBOL and GTK3+. Is there anything
> available to accomplish this mission?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arch
>
Hello, Arch.
It needs work in terms of the styling layer, when the GTK folk broke
being able to change the colour of a button in code, relying instead on
a CSSish external file, I gave up trying to keep up with the continual
breakage. Anyway, take a look at cobweb-gtk.
Discussion and some bragging
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/cobol/thread/ab28685d/
Some griping
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/lounge/thread/50081777/
The code
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/contrib/HEAD/tree/trunk/tools/cobweb/cobweb-gtk/
That was 6 years ago now. Supposedly GTK+ 3 has "stabilized", (I think
the GNOME folk ran out of stuff to break), but at this point GTK 4 is in
the works and releases will probably go through another 5 years of
continual breakage. Though that may well be a sour grapes opinion on my
part. GNOME seems to think that desktop development should work on a
touchscreen phone. Nice theory, but utterly wrong thinking in my humble
opinion. Phones are devices for consuming, not efficient development nodes.
I lean to Agar for a stable(r) path to GnuCOBOL GUI work now. A much
smaller team works on libAgar, so it's not as refined in look, but still
covers all the needs, in a much smaller but still cross-platform package.
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/cobol/thread/c2ac66c1
Have good, do well,
Blue