wxGTK Unusably slow over the network

[Arnar Mar Sigurðsson]

On May 15, 2007, at 3:25 PM, defreitas at gmail.com wrote:

> Running over a network is pretty important to us. Here at Sikorsky
> Aircraft, we are looking to redesign our user interfaces for our
> helicopter simulation software. Many times we need to remotely login
> in from our desktop workstation to our realtime simulation machine in
> the lab. Since our simulation software is written in C++ I was hoping
> to use wxWidgets instead of Java/Swing (I really don't want to use
> JNI). I hate to say this, but we may have to go the Java/Swing route
> for performance reasons (I never thought I would say that), well...
> network performance anyway.
>
> Using GTK+ 1 is not an attractive option due to the lack of more
> advanced features (such as a horizontal scrollbar in a wxTextCtrl
> widget), and the fact the development has halted on GTK+ 1 and I
> assume this will eventually be dropped.
>
> Maybe I can try GTK+ version 2.4 instead of 2.8... do you think it
> would make a difference? The very old version of GTK+ 2 I used at
> first did not have the performance issue... but it only worked with
> wxWidgets 2.6.3 and I really want to migrate to 2.8 to use wxAUI.
>
> Maybe I can use wxMotif? Is development still pretty active on the
> Motif port and is wxAUI usable with Motif?

We have been running our IO simulator (Using wxWidgets 2.8.3 + GTK  
2.4.13 and wxAUI) over network (thru ssh tunnel, both on 100Mbit and  
wifi) and i have not seen any slowness issuses. The only thing is  
that the drag+drop on wxAUI panes is a bit messed up, but still usable

Greets:
    Arnar Mar Sig