but personally i find it much more desirable that the
plugin provides
effectively a widget which can be added to a container (provided by the
host) rather than the plugin creating its own window. its just much
neater..
this makes no difference to the problem. whether the plugin creates a
widget or a window, the integration of the event loop is still a
central blocking problem.
I thought Gtk(mm) is a more natural choice, since it is
freely available
on all platforms, voila.
many Qt users feel otherwise. and wxWin is available too, along with
several other kits.
--p