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

[Maya <Esc...@ne...>]

No one here has mentioned FLTK.
How would you compare FLTK to wxWindows or FOX?
What would be the biggest advantage / disadvantage over the other tool 
kits discussed in this thread? excluding WIN32.
 
As a general rule, it is best to write code that is as portable as 
possible. I myself try to use the C++ STDs as much as I can. However,  
since what I do is to develop applications for UNIX machines and now 
MSW, speed in this case can be viewed as a challenge, but as I always 
say, "Either the user waits three nanoseconds or we spent $30K on 
restructuring the app."; we all know what the answer is to that one.
As I am trying to implement a better GUI to up coming applications, I 
have been doing some research and have found that the FLTK mailing list 
team is very dynamic as well as the FOX team. There is a lack of 
documentation for both libraries, but as someone said, "you can always 
have a look at the code".

What I am looking for in a GUI tool kit are three things. One, 
portability. As I said before I want the freedom to compile here, there 
and any where. Good bye MFC!! and other MSW-only gui tool kits
Second, it must be a FSF tool kit. I want provide the quality of service 
and professionalism the customers are used to, with out the problem of 
having to by licenses for this machine or that one or another; savings 
in this area will substantially lower the price of the app. development; 
making me more competitive / marketable. Good bye Qt!!
Third, but not least, it must be a C++ tool kit... mmm ... or have C++ 
bindings like gtk+ [gtkmm]

Stability, learning curve and other aspects that are to be considered 
will be looked at when and only when the above conditions are met.

I would like to thank you in advance for you help, and any other member 
of the Dev-Cpp mailing list that might be interested in pitching in the.

PD
Are there any programers in this list that live in the Toronto are? S/He 
must be fluent in C++ and Dev-Cpp.


mu...@cb... wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Oliver Brandt wrote:
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>>looking forward into the future microsoft´s winapi is dead. Because
>>"Longhorn" has no winapi anymore. I don´t know what comes then
>>but you have to learn a new api. So I think wxwindows is very easy
>>to use, it´s a crossplattform toolkit and is´s very mature.
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>>
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>Well, the Win32API is depricated. But it will be around for awhile yet.
>Microsoft can't just get rid of it with Longhorn because that will break
>Legacy apps.
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>But wxWindows is broken when the Win32 API goes away too, unless it is
>completely rewritten on the Windows platform to use the WinFX API. All
>wxWindows does is wrap native Win32 API functions in classes and such.
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