wrook -- see my uid? I've been around a while. (you too, I see.)

My enjoyment of slashdot diminished years ago -- it's long since fallen off my rss feeds and daily visits. I found your comment via a link on hacker news and you sir -- you have given me a new hope for slashdot.

kudos on an insightful post.

J.J.
 

Python + ctypes

load the DLL yourself direct from python, get a pointer to the function and use it, from python, the same any other windows programmer.

zero reliability on frameworks and included in the main python distro for 2.5 and above.

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Perhaps someone on the Qt/Mac or equivalent GTK project could answer this for me. Why is it that when these toolkits get ported to another other platform, be it Windows, MacOS, BeOS or what have you, they insist on looking and acting as GTK or Qt applications rather than native apps? A Qt/Windows or GTK/Windows app would be much more useful and usable to me if it used native Windows widgets and thus fit in with every other program I use.

As an example, I use gaim on FreeBSD because its tabbed interface is simply the best I've come across. I would love to use it instead of Trillian when I'm forced into using Windows. But the Windows port of gaim, which uses GTK+/Windows, works horribly. The GTK theme doesn't match my XP settings, widgets draw slowly and work clumsily (tooltips in particular seem to spontaneously appear and refuse to go away, even when the program is minimized!), and all in all it feels like a cheap Wal-Mart knockoff.

GTK+ widgets offer no benefits over standard Windows controls -- they draw slower, they don't match the environment, and Windows is just as themable as GTK is. Going back on-topic, this Qt/Mac port of Konqueror likewise eschews native widgets for the entirely out-of-place Qt look. All I can ask is Why? Wouldn't it be far easier for Qt/ and GTK/Windows or /Mac to simply wrap native widgets, rather than poorly ape them?

On google, so that if they change URL for archiving, people can still access it by Google cache.

Slashdot desperately needs a James Traficant crapflooder. In my opinion, Mr. Traficant is one of the few normal human beings in Congress.

Keep up the good work.

Our rights are just as important as anybody elses. If you claim to be for free speech, then be for free speech. Don't censor people for unpopular views. Limiting the number of postings does just that.