Please explain what the GTK event model can do that the Xt event model cannot. I think they are the same.
Add your own mechanisms for handling, prioritising and dispatching new types of `events' which don't manifest themselves through poll(2), such as receiving UNIX signals. This wasn't even possible with Xt until R6 and then it was a clumsy hack which only handled the specific case of UNIX signals. You still couldn't deal with more general cases, e.g. semaphores becoming available.
The thing that disgusted me most was that Sun actually got this right years before with the Notifier package in SunView, so it's not like the Xt people had no good example to crib from.
Take it from someone who's seen both the Xt and the glib code, Xt has nothing anywhere near as useful as g_source_add(). The Glib/GDK/GTK combo is just a thousand times cleaner than the horrible mess that is the main event loop of Xt.
So far in my career I've written UNIX GUIs in SunView, XView, OLIT, Motif, Tk/Tcl, and GTK. Of these, GTK is by far the best. Go GTK!!
It's also an RTSP server, so I would guess it is independant of media and players, right?
And you would guess wrong. It works with QuickTime media only because it needs QuickTime hints to figure out timing. And so far I've only managed to get it to work with Apple's own QT RTSP client.
Bottom line, Apple's QTSS is not the final Open Source streaming solution. It may be a good start, though, so thanks to Apple for releasing it!
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I'm still waiting for the 802.11 wireless linux handheld capable of displaying remote X applications, but it looks like we're getting closer.
It's already here, at stand S1077, running on this box
Please explain what the GTK event model can do that the Xt event model cannot. I think they are the same.
Add your own mechanisms for handling, prioritising and dispatching new types of `events' which don't manifest themselves through poll(2), such as receiving UNIX signals. This wasn't even possible with Xt until R6 and then it was a clumsy hack which only handled the specific case of UNIX signals. You still couldn't deal with more general cases, e.g. semaphores becoming available.
The thing that disgusted me most was that Sun actually got this right years before with the Notifier package in SunView, so it's not like the Xt people had no good example to crib from.
Take it from someone who's seen both the Xt and the glib code, Xt has nothing anywhere near as useful as g_source_add(). The Glib/GDK/GTK combo is just a thousand times cleaner than the horrible mess that is the main event loop of Xt.
So far in my career I've written UNIX GUIs in SunView, XView, OLIT, Motif, Tk/Tcl, and GTK. Of these, GTK is by far the best. Go GTK!!
It's also an RTSP server, so I would guess it is independant of media and players, right?
And you would guess wrong. It works with QuickTime media only because it needs QuickTime hints to figure out timing. And so far I've only managed to get it to work with Apple's own QT RTSP client.
Bottom line, Apple's QTSS is not the final Open Source streaming solution. It may be a good start, though, so thanks to Apple for releasing it!
Similarly, make [...] needs a simple GUI front end for newbies more than it needs rewriting.
See http://www.alphalink.com.au/~gnb/maketoo l/
Disclaimer: I wrote it.