Re: hilghlighting

2010-05-12 Thread Robert Pearce
On Wed, 12 May 2010, deloptes wrote : this was a pretty good summary. So Windows >2k is utf-16 - I stopped following with 2k. so in theory it would accept utf-8 so MinGW shouldn't mangle the chars No, you clearly didn't read the summary. UTF-16 is NOT compatible with UTF-8. Granted my last p

Re: demo assistant

2010-05-12 Thread deloptes
David King wrote: > > See the commit for more information: > thanks ___ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list

Re: hilghlighting

2010-05-12 Thread deloptes
Alexander Shaduri wrote: this was a pretty good summary. So Windows >2k is utf-16 - I stopped following with 2k. so in theory it would accept utf-8 so MinGW shouldn't mangle the chars but I agree, Glib::ustring makes it transperent regards ___ gtkm

Re: Re: Re: Reading From A Pipe

2010-05-12 Thread Lyle Underwood
=o I guess the open source philosophy IS pretty commie. On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 18:18 +, american.communist.pa...@gmail.com wrote: > On May 11, 2010 4:57pm, Lyle Underwood > wrote: > > Every single time you write to this list I think that the reds are > > > > trying to recruit me, until I see

Re: Re: Re: Reading From A Pipe

2010-05-12 Thread american . communist . party
On May 11, 2010 4:57pm, Lyle Underwood wrote: Every single time you write to this list I think that the reds are trying to recruit me, until I see that it's a gtkmm-list message. But your not wrong, we are trying to recruit you. The world communist conspiracy is a big supporter of the OS

Re: hilghlighting

2010-05-12 Thread Alexander Shaduri
On Wed, 12 May 2010 18:29:58 +0100 Robert Pearce wrote: > Because Linux is natively UTF-8 and therefore handles UTF-8 strings. > MinGW sits on top of Windows, which is UCS-16 - that is, any unicode > string must use wide characters throughout, so any "normal" string has > to be translated. The de

Re: hilghlighting

2010-05-12 Thread Robert Pearce
On Wed, 12 May 2010 12:10:04 +0200 deloptes wrote: > But back to the original question. why shouldn't be string in MinGW the same > as string in linux? Because Linux is natively UTF-8 and therefore handles UTF-8 strings. MinGW sits on top of Windows, which is UCS-16 - that is, any unicode strin

Re: Descriptions

2010-05-12 Thread michi7x7
Also accelerator keys/groups are used if I want to build short cuts into my application i.e. ctr+w would close the current window. This is done by adding an action group to the window ___ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnom

Descriptions

2010-05-12 Thread Talguy
I'm still pretty new at gtkmm and gui program and have been working with cairo and gtk::drawingarea to do some animations. I was going through the drawing area docs and notices some virtual functions I've never heard of before so I was wondering if someone could explain to me what they do. The fu

Re: demo assistant

2010-05-12 Thread David King
On 2010-04-30 09:52, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:35 +0200, deloptes wrote: Unfortunately I have stumbled on one problem I can not solve. I have to exchange data between the assistant and the main window. How would someone do it? Can you give me another hint? I need basically

Re: hilghlighting

2010-05-12 Thread deloptes
Robert Pearce wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:27:13 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > >> > What about systems not using UTF-8?  Windows systems? >> >> all windows systems are utf (or better say UCS) >> windows became utf even before linux did - did you know? > > But Windows explicitly did NOT adopt U

Re: hilghlighting

2010-05-12 Thread Robert Pearce
On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:27:13 +0200 deloptes wrote: > > What about systems not using UTF-8?  Windows systems? > > all windows systems are utf (or better say UCS) > windows became utf even before linux did - did you know? But Windows explicitly did NOT adopt UTF-8 - its "UCS" which is a complete