Re: [Plib-users] wxWindows and SSG together?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Ben Discoe wrote:
 
> I've been using wxWindows for a few months, including a large GUI for a 2d
> application, and it's been fantastic.  It's a *lot* like MFC

<shudder>

> only much cleaner, simpler, and of course portable and open.

Hmmm.  I disliked it intensely for the few months I was forced to work with
the damned thing - but that was before I knew it was a lot like MFC...   :-)

> Also, i don't know of any alternative when developing Open software on both
> Win32 and Linux.  Qt doesn't support Open software on Win32,

Is that *still* true?

The QPL license on their web site at http://doc.trolltech.com/license.html says
that the 'Qt Free Edition' is free to non-commercial software - but for commercial
use you have to get 'Qt Professional Edition' which costs $$$$.  There is no mention
(that I could find) about which OS you run it under - so it's STILL not *truly* free
(in both senses) under Linux - and it's no more and no less free under Windoze.

I thought they'd finally become truly "Open"....<sigh>

> GTK isn't quite working yet on Win32

Well, GIMP (which is the 'G' in 'GTK') seems to run pretty well under Windoze,
so I'd expect GTK to be pretty robust now...I could easily be wrong about that
though.  How recently did you check it out?

> and to the best of my knowledge no other portable GUI
> tolkits have a significant user base, interface-design utilities, etc.

FLTK is pretty good.  We've been using it for PrettyPoly (PPE) and it's GUI is
going together quite nicely.  It certainly has a significant user base, there
is 'FLUID' for interface design - and it's portable (we've been using it under
Windoze, Linux and various UNIXen).

There is also Tcl/Tk, Java...I'm sure there are LOTS of others.

> That's why getting wxWindows and SSG working together is so important... and
> technically, it really should work.

I'm not sure how important it is - but it *should* certainly work.

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