Re: [Dev-C++] Offtopic: Advice on GUI to learn

[Daniel G. <sp...@ho...>]

You can create a window in 5 lines, but won't that be very high level? With 
the windows API you have other things to set up. Or is there a more detailed 
version that takes 30 lines of code?


>From: Goran Rakić <go...@de...>
>To: dev...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Offtopic: Advice on GUI to learn
>Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:56:56 +0100
>
>Dana četvrtak 15. januar 2004. 21:25, Michal Molhanec je napisao/la:
> > Michael C Urban wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would start with the wxWindows toolkit. It's cross platform, and 
>easier
> > > to learn than either the Win API or GTK. GTK also is somewhat buggy on
> > > Win32 yet, and its widgets look rather out of place since it draws its
> > > own widgets instead of using the native Win32 ones.
> >
> > GTK+ can look nearly native:
> > http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > > wxWindows is probably your best bet. Easier to learn than GTK. Better
> > > Windows support, and more cross-platform.
> >
> > IMHO is GTK easier to learn than wxWin. But IMHO it makes much more
> > sense to compare wxWindows to gtkmm and I think that gtkmm + glademm is
> > really simple to use. glademm uses much modern C++ than wxWin
>
>Gtk is easier, and I suggest you to try GTKmm and glademm. It is very good 
>GUI
>toolkit and it is not buggy at all.
>
>On the other hand, you can get a window in FLTK in 5 lines of code! It is 
>very
>fast, tiny and ... GUI toolkit, but it is not to be used with so called
>"mainstream windows applications" as it donot support native windows look.
>eFLTK on the other hand support some way of theming, so you can try to make
>it more Windowish...
>
>wxWin is big MFC like GUI library and I donot feel confortable when using 
>it.
>I donot know why, I simply donot like that style.
>
>Goran
>
>
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