[Mxflib-developers] FLTK GUI toolkit

[Robin R. <rower@MovieEditor.com>]

Hi. Just joined the list. See in the forums there was a question about GUI 
toolkits back in April. Do you still want info on that?

I lead the CinePaint project, the most popular open source tool in the 
motion picture industry. CinePaint was originally based upon GIMP and 
therefore uses GTK. CinePaint is being rewritten to use FLTK instead. Did a 
lot of research on toolkits before taking this drastic step. FLTK, the Fast 
Light Toolkit, lives up to it's name. Much smaller than other toolkits like 
GTK. It is also the only toolkit that was developed by the film industry, 
created by Digital Domain as the toolkit for the successful compositor NUKE. 
FLTK supports Linux, Windows, and Mac. License is LGPL.

More info:

www.fltk.org.
http://cinepaint.bigasterisk.com/WhyMigrateFromGTKToFLTK

Hope this helps,

Robin
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Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com   Beverly Hills, California
www.CinePaint.org - Open source digital motion picture software


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Matt Beard
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
Location: Scotland
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:55 am    Post subject: Cross-platform GUIs

At present the example applications supplied with MXFLib are all 
command-line utilities. At some stage it would be useful to provide some GUI 
applications, however as cross-platform support and truly open licensing are 
key to MXFLib the choice of tool-kit is important.

Please post your views on candidate cross-platform C++ GUI toolkits.