[SGVLUG] X11 gui programming - suggestions please

[Rod Morison]

+1 on wxWidgets and/or wxPython. I've used wxWidgets for a number of 
commercial and personal projects on Windows and OSX. The newish 2.9.4 
version cleans up some OSX Lion+ issues with deprecated quickdraw calls 
and full use of Cocoa.

I haven't actually used it on Linux/GTK, but believe it's very stable 
there. Docs, mailing list and community are solid. Source code is very 
readable, though belaying its MFC origins at times. Admittedly, Qt is 
better designed, but you can get most jobs done equally efficiently with 
either. And Qt's various licensing/ownership incarnations have worried 
me over time.

That is, unless you want to get into the real nitty gritty: Xlib 
coding...you can learn a lot, but not the shortest path to getting an 
app up.

(I see Dan K posted: Yes wx has a solid following indeed...there's 
chatter about a mobile/tablet port, don't know where that is at.)

And, for laying out dialogs in wx, try wxFormBuilder, a poor person's 
viz studio designer.

Rod


On 10/24/2012 2:06 PM, Doug Vargas wrote:
> I myself love wxWidgets, it's cross platform and provides lots of tools, but so do qt and gtk+. The site netcode has some tutorials on all three, you could check them out and see which one you like. As you mentioned curses might work, and it's surprisingly easy to code.
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> Robert Leyva <mrflash818 at geophile.net> wrote:
>
>> Greets
>>
>> I am working on a hobbyist project to generate a coded text file based on
>> user input.
>>
>> I am using C++, and MVC design pattern(s).
>>
>> For the GUI (view the user will interact with) I am researching gtk,
>> curses, and such, but never have used any of them before on a project.
>>
>> Hoping my fellow SGVLUGers might have ideas/suggestions based on your
>> experience doing GUI programming.
>>
>> I dont' think I will need to draw graphics or images. At this stage I
>> expect my GUI would just need to view/display/intake keyboard text.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> -- 
>> "Knowledge is Power" -- Sir Francis Bacon
>>
>> Robert Leyva
>> mrflash818 at geophile.net
>>
>>
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