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Is it a bad idea to run WxWidgets and GTK?

I'm currently writing a media player in Ruby (called Shroom) with a GTK interface, but I use WxWidget's MediaCtrl for cross-platform audio playback abstraction. I don't want to use WxRuby for the interface as well, as I need to work with GTK's TreeView.

What kind of performance problems may arise from this? Is it so bad to have two main loops?

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Depending on the platform you're using, it may not be an issue. I believe wxWidgets wraps GTK on linux. You may need to end up using wxWidgets for your code though.

Grant Limberg  2009-09-18 21:53:57
+1  A: 

With two dependencies, your application will be less desirable.

Cem Kalyoncu  2009-09-18 21:54:16
Other than that, as long as it works, it will be ok.
Cem Kalyoncu  2009-09-18 21:55:25

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