Questions about GTK, wxWindows, etc.

[José Jorge]

What are they (general explanation please)?

I think they're libraries for making Visual application that can be easy ported through platforms (Windows, Linux). But if they work with Windows, would it be easier to make Visual applications for this OS using these libraries than using the Win32 API?

And the last question, which one do you recommend me (GTK, wxWindows, etc.) to use with Dev-C?

Thanks.

[Greer Trumble]

Try using Wide Studio to make your initial program (it's a code generator, the best I've seen) and then streamline by accessing other libraries through Dev-CPP.

Powerful Combo!

Regards,
Greer

[Patrick Ogay]

Acually GTK+ is nice crossplat form (as many GTK+ programs e.g. Gimp is ported to win32).

Some people here work with wXwindows.
I read a description, and it seem to have a similar structure as MFC, so it may be useful to use to port MFC programs.
wXwindows is certainly also a good choice.

I use GTK, because I found wGlade, a program to generate windows easyly and a makefile to compile.

There are other free Cross-Plattform GUI as Fox, FLTK....
Here a link: http://www.free-soft.org/guitool/

Patrick

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I use wxWindows. I like it because porting is really easy and it supports very nice widgets. I confess, I didn't try GTK+...
I don't like the MFC and Qt, both are somewhat to bloated, although they are not initially bad.
wxWindows can be quite confusing at first because of its complexity, but once you got it it's a real blast.
If you want fast small apps better stick with the API. I'd say learning some basics of the API will allways be usefull cause every framework uses it "under the hood". wx surely isn't as easy as the MFC, but its better than Qt and it's free.
For fast Gui crreation there is wxDesigner (not as good as Glade, but it does its job...)

I'd recommend reading about the API first, do some bacis stuff with it and then decide which framework suits you best..

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[José Jorge]

thanks, I'm already reading about the Win32 API