Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI for fgfs

[Martin O. <mo...@ad...>]

On 2001.10.04 15:46 Norman Vine wrote:
> Martin Olveyra writes:
> >
> >I'm planning for the next month to develop a python gtk GUI for calling
> >fgfs under linux.
> >I choose python because its simplicity and there is no need of a speed
> >optimized program for just call fgfs.
> >But first I must be sure that no other one is doing the same.
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> Hi Martin
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> This is a great idea but ....
> I urge you to look at a more cross-platform friendly toolkit to use.
> If you want to use Python :-) I would suggest looking into PMW
> http://pmw.sourceforge.net/
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> Notice that this now includes Blt
> http://www.ifi.uio.no/~hpl/Pmw.Blt/doc/
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> If you want to make an even lighter weight Interface < C++ code >
> the FLTK GUI library weighs in at about 1 / 10th the size
> of a Python distribution and has a graphical forms designer
> and has recently been ported to the Mac so all major OSs
> should be supported
> http://www.fltk.org

I will take a look at this GUI toolkit and evaluate my possibilities.

> FWIW - I have built several FGFS 'launchers' with FLTK and
> have even experimented with using it as a replacement for PUI
> with some success.
>=20
What do you mean with "some success"?
What problems arised during code writing/testing?
I would like to know your experience as a complement of a personal
evaluation of fltk prior to take a decision.

Thanks.
Martin.