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

[Michael C U. <mu...@cb...>]

My main gripe with FLTK. The widgets are uglier than just about anything I
have ever seen. The icons and such look like a child drew them. FLTK 2.0
is supposed to be skinnable so that problem will go away, but AFAIK, right
now, FLTK is not skinnable.

Other than that, it's a nice toolkit.

Mike

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Maya wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> >>looking forward into the future microsoft=B4s winapi is dead. Because
> >>"Longhorn" has no winapi anymore. I don=B4t know what comes then
> >>but you have to learn a new api. So I think wxwindows is very easy
> >>to use, it=B4s a crossplattform toolkit and is=B4s very mature.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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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