gtk2 is very old and being replaced by gtk3 or even gtk4

[alexmyczko]

What is the state for lazpaint about GTK?

[circular17]

That’s the state of the LCL, Lazarus Component Library, which LazPaint relies on.

[alexmyczko]

do you of them plans to upgrade to 3 or 4 this or next year?

[fredvs]

Or migrate to msegui?
Ok je sors....

[circular17]

Well that's not absurd actually, but... I would need much spare time.

I suppose it would solve all widget sets problems as it is all custom drawn?

[fredvs]

Well that's not absurd actually, but... I would need much spare time.

I would help with great pleasure.

I suppose it would solve all widget sets problems as it is all custom drawn?

Yes all is configurable, even the shape of the frames. I did a rapid check and all the widgets used in LCL LazPaint have equivalent in msegui.

Also you would be totally independent of widget-set versions (like GTK2, GTK3, Qt2, Qt3).
Even more LazPaint will run on a "Pure X" system ( without GTK or Qt or other widgetset installed.)

Of course lt will need some work but all the methods can be copied and, big advantage, msegui is BGRAbitmap already compatible.

The bemol, msegui, at the moment, is only Linux, FreeBSD and Windows compatible but not yet Mac (that could still use the LCL version).

[circular17]

Ok I understand. So one would need to be able to handle either LCL or mseGUI.

[fredvs]

You mean that Lazpaint-LCL and LazPaint-mseGUI should share the same lazpaint-units for what is not graphic (like type, var, methods, ...)?
If so that is the best, you can also imagine to use other widget-sets.

But lot of work... ( tant mieux ;-) )