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New UI toolkit for libPirate
Posted on December 23rd, 2007 9 commentsAfter six month, I have to say my Gtk toolkit is really going the wrong way. It was a great time to discover this, as the new Winbinder was just released.
Winbinder, for those who don’t know, is an extension to PHP which allows it to bind to Win32 GUI elements to create applications. Essentially, it is to Windows as PHP-GTK is to … well, every platform with Gtk, including Windows.
byuu has coincidentally been working on a new library to do the same thing, but in C. I floated the proposal past him, and he decided it sounds good, so we will be working together on a new yet-unnamed section of libPirate to provide cross-platform GUI support.
For those still unclear, the project is similar to wxWidgets. You write for the wrapper, and it maps your code to either Gtk or Windows code depending on the target operating system.
We will be doing the same thing, but in PHP.
This means when it is done, libPirate applications will run natively under the user’s host GUI with no recompilation needed.
Sorry Mac people, you still have to use Gtk. I know it sucks, but it works. Tell someone to make a Carbonlib extension for PHP!
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Derrick Sobodash is a copy editor and freelance journalist covering culture, history and technology in Beijing, China.
Originally from the Detroit, Michigan area, he has worked at weekly and daily community newspapers as reporter and copy editor in both the US and China, and has covered niche topics for nationally published magazines.
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