[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7446) center_on_something fails

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7446 >

Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:09:28AM -0700, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa 
>>wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Xaw and GTK+ 1.2 are broken, they mix the resize handling with the expose
>>>handling, this makes no sense and is stupid. There was no reason to break
>>>GTK+ 2.2 as well just to use common code.
>>
>>I may also agree here. It was the way in GTK1 and Xaw since they don't
>>offer this configure callback. Or does they?
> 
> 
> AFAIK GTK+ 1.2 also has that event. So it should work if it was reimplemented
> in the same fashion as it is in GTK+ 2.x.
> The reason why the GTK+ 1.2 client is like that today is due to mere
> historical reasons. The GTK+ 1.2 code was written based on the Xaw client,
> which implemented it in this horrible way.

But AFAICT the XAW client doesn't need this code either (except for 
allocating the single_tile).

jason