Window Program Decisions

[Wonock]

What is the best window using language/add-on to learn? I have have a background in C only ... and have looked at GTK/Gnome. Is there anything that is better or easier for someone who doesn't have much graphical programming knowledge?

Wonock

[RogueFiend]

You should check out the article at http://www.sunworld.com/swol-03-1998/swol-03-gui.html it discusses some of the features of many different GUI toolkits for Linux and UNIX. I chose to go with Qt because it saves me writing a C++ wrapper and it has great OpenGL support. If you dont like C++ then Qt is probably out of the question for you. I hope this helps you make your decision.

[A_Lawn_GNOME]

Cheat: http://glade.pn.org/

It builds the GUI for you. All you need to do is fill in the blanks for the something_button_clicked() functions. Only problem you will have is with moving graphics which I don't quite have down yet.

Anything that's missing can be figured out kinda easily.

This is Gtk+ but there is a C++ wrapper for it, which is what I use. I avoided Qt mostly b/c I hate KDE http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif .

[RogueFiend]

Just because you hate KDE doesn't mean you cant use Qt. Qt is independant of KDE ie KDE needs Qt but Qt doesn't need KDE. I think that Qt is a better step in the right direction than Gtk because Qt is a far better cross platform toolkit. I just wish Trolltech would release a QPL or GPL version of Qt so that I can port my apps to windows.

[klamath]

Qt is a far better cross platform toolkit

How is that? Considering you need to pay for Qt on Windows (while GTK+ on Windows is free), I don't see how this is an advantage for Qt.

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[jief]

Originally posted by RogueFiend:
Just because you hate KDE doesn't mean you cant use Qt. Qt is independant of KDE ie KDE needs Qt but Qt doesn't need KDE. I think that Qt is a better step in the right direction than Gtk because Qt is a far better cross platform toolkit. I just wish Trolltech would release a QPL or GPL version of Qt so that I can port my apps to windows.

not to mention that the method names are a lot friendlier in QT than the function names in GTK.. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Jeff