GTK+

[acura0382]

tonight i bought myself a book on GTK+/Gnome programming. and i was wondering if this language is the best to do with GUI's in linux. and also what are the limitations of GTK+ or GNome. i was thinking for a school project doing a simple spredsheet, is this possible with this lib?

thank you

[nanode]

I don't have first hand experience, but I believe anything is possible (to a reasonable extent) with either GTK or its competitor, QT.

The biggest difference is the languages. Are you more of a C or C++ person?

That's usually the tie breaker for a lot of folks.

[DenisL]

Currently having a holy-war in my head about this very topic... From experience though I find that QT requires significantly less code to do the same thing in GTK+.

[Stuka]

I have to agree with Denis. I've read up on GTK+, and now I'm reading up on (and dl'ing) Qt. Both seem good, and are object-oriented, Qt benefits from the object-oriented nature of C++, without the somewhat ungainly macros of GTK+.

[Sterling]

Yes, but I personally like GTK+... Although the documentation available online generally sucks if you're trying to do anything beyond the tutorial. And some of the widgets are missing fairly important features. Especially the multi-line text widget. The one that comes to mind there is the inability to turn of line wrap properly or have a vertical scrollbar.

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[acura0382]

i bought a cook called gtk+/gnome programming bible and it seems pretty good. but i'm just not too familiar with linux programming, thanks for your help guys