"best" GUI API
September 15, 2003 11:42 AM
I want to start programming X windows apps, but don''t really know where to start. I want to make good looking apps, but don''t know which API to use. I was thinking of Qt, but only because I think most of the others look crappy. Are there any other good looking APIs that I can use?
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September 15, 2003 11:53 AM
You can try GTK+. It''s C, but you can always use a C++ wrapper library(Gtkmm).
September 15, 2003 12:15 PM
I just read about wxWindows, I think I''ll try that.
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September 15, 2003 11:37 PM
Qt is nice a nice cross platform gui API(linux,Mac,.
1.Supports native look and feel (unlike GTK)
2.Object oriented.
3.Uses signals and slots.
4.VB like form creation using Qt designer.
1.Supports native look and feel (unlike GTK)
2.Object oriented.
3.Uses signals and slots.
4.VB like form creation using Qt designer.
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September 16, 2003 01:18 AM
Qt is also not free for comercial use and I believe, but may be wrong, that it requires special libraries on Windows and Mac machines.
wxWindows is a wrapper for the Windows API/GTK/Whatever OS X uses and others, this way it doesn''t require anything special to be installed on the users machine.
wxWindows is a wrapper for the Windows API/GTK/Whatever OS X uses and others, this way it doesn''t require anything special to be installed on the users machine.
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September 16, 2003 01:32 AM
Aqua 
wxWindows is a good choice. So is GLUI if you happen to be using OpenGL and GLUT.
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wxWindows is a good choice. So is GLUI if you happen to be using OpenGL and GLUT.
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September 16, 2003 11:16 AM
quote: Original post by griffenjam
Qt is also not free for comercial use and I believe, but may be wrong, that it requires special libraries on Windows and Mac machines.
Uh, it requires special libraries on any machine. It just comes with most Linux distributions. Technically Gtk falls under the same category here.
Personally, I dislike Gtk. Mostly because of the fact that it''s in C. I do, however, like Qt.
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September 16, 2003 01:34 PM
I know that both Qt and GTK require special libraries on Linux, but since it''s *almost* a given that they will be installed on most linux systems I didn''t feel it was necessary to worry about compatability issues there, Windows was my area of concern. Qt is not likely to be installed on very many windows machines, so it really wasn''t what I was looking for.
Just for clarification, with wxWindows, you don''t actually call GTK API functions, it is hidden under a C++ wrapper.
Just for clarification, with wxWindows, you don''t actually call GTK API functions, it is hidden under a C++ wrapper.
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September 16, 2003 01:58 PM
quote: Original post by Tha_HoodRat
1.Supports native look and feel (unlike GTK)
That''s not wholly true anymore (about GTK+). GTK+ 2.x includes a theme engine which uses native Windows libraries to draw its widgets in certain versions of Windows and falls back on a Win9x look-alike theme if it cannot use it. On other platforms, GTK+ still uses its default theme. Not quite perfect, but remarkably close
.quote: Original post by Tha_HoodRat
2.Object oriented.
GTK+ too. (If you want C++, you''d use GTKmm, of course. People always seem to GTK+''s numerous well-done language bindings: the default C, C++, Python, Perl, Ada, Common Lisp, et cetera.)
quote: Original post by Tha_HoodRat
4.VB like form creation using Qt designer.
I can''t say if it''s as good as Qt Designer (as I''ve simply never used it), but GTK+ applications can be designed through a GUI with Glade (Glade 2 for GTK+ 2.x, of course).
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September 17, 2003 02:39 PM
i would recommend wxwindows
not to difficult and support everything you need
i also read about fltk more or less the same thing as wxwindows but fltk code is extrem small (i haven''t actually used it but what i read sounds pretty encouraging)
not to difficult and support everything you need
i also read about fltk more or less the same thing as wxwindows but fltk code is extrem small (i haven''t actually used it but what i read sounds pretty encouraging)
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