Re: [Mesa3d-users] GUI under X

[pete <pe...@cl...>]

the GLUT widgets spring immediately to mind. Open Inventor (oss.sgi.com) 
might also give you a good framework.

Depending on your platform, you could also use:

Motif - heinously ugly, but complete and proven. C API. 
http://www.openmotif.com

FLTK - moderately ugly, haven't used it myself to judge it's 
completeness. C API? http://www.fltk.org

GTK+ - looks great, complete, should be available for most UNIX 
platforms. You could use a separate 'control panel' window or embed an 
OpenGL window in a GTK+ app using gtkgl. C API. http://www.gnome.org

SDL/ParaGUI or similar - Cross-platform graphics library for UNIX/Linux, 
Windows, MacOS - Supports OpenGL. SDL is lowlevel, but there are various 
GUI projects based on it. C API. http://www.libsdl.org

wxWindows is what i use for portability to Win32. This can use GTK+, 
Motif, Win32 or MacOS widgets depending on platform and supports OpenGL 
too. C++ API. http://www.wxwindows.org

QT - Trolltech's GUI toolkit. Looks great, complete, supports OpenGL. 
Win32 version commercial, UNIX version free. C++ API. 
http://www.trolltech.com

Personally, i find wxWindows really good, but one of my major goals is 
Win32 compatibility. Otherwise i would favour GTK+, and if my app was to 
run fullscreen, or required custom UI functionality, then i would use 
SDL and one of the GUI toolkits built on it.

Theoretically, you can compile GTK+ for Windows, which means porting a 
GTK+ app to Windows isn't impossible, but it seems like a giant pain in 
the ass at the moment.

Hope that helps

-Pete

> Hi,
> 
> I am just wondering what people suggest as the best method (an API?) for
> creating a relatively simple GUI (couple of buttons maybe advancing to a
> slide bar) on an X window system for interfacing with a surface navigation
> program I've written in openGL (mesa 3.1). Any suggestions will be greatly
> appreciated as I have done very little GUI development under X.
> 
> -Michael
> 
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