Embedding OS/X UI elements in the GTK+ toolkit

[Posted August 28, 2013 by n8willis]

Over at the Lanedo blog, Michael Natterer explains recent work the company has done in conjunction with Xamarin to better integrate GTK+ with Mac OS X. The work involves embedding Quartz widgets into GTK+, plus properly handling input events. "Fortunately, event handling in GTK+ and Quartz are similar: Mouse events are delivered directly to the GdkWindow / NSView they are happening on. Key events get dispatched to the top-level GdkWindow / NSWindow which is in charge of forwarding them to the focus widget / first responder."

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