Re: Cross-Platform GUI

[Fabian Arocena <fabian arocena gmail com>]

Ok. Thanks everybody. (Never expected such detailed answers!!!!)
Anyway, I think I'll go for GTKmm. One of the features that interests
me the most (apart from all the ones you've mentioned) is that it has
a very detailed class documentation, and since I'm a newbie in
programming GUI, it will really need it !!!!

Besides, it seems to be a very complete library (and the screenshots
are really attarctive, he he).
Ok, thanks again all of you for your advices !


On 5/9/05, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 07:00 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > >Overall, I think gtkmm would be a good choice.
> > >wxWidgets and FLTK are quite cumbersome, and they
> > >don't offer you the flexibility that is found in gtkmm
> > >and/or C++.
> >
> > there is one important consideration that nobody has mentioned so far.
> > portability to Aqua rather than X11.app on OS X. GTK has seen two
> > efforts to port it to Aqua, using different approaches. Both projects
> > appear to be essentially dead. This means that you cannot use GTK (and
> > by implication, gtkmm) to write native apps for OS X - your users are
> > forced to use X11.app and your applications will have X-styled
> > appearances, not Aqua-like ones.
> >
> > several people have offered to invest some amounts of money in my
> > digital audio workstation software "ardour" to do a native OS X port,
> > and i have told them "find someone you can pay to port GDK to Aqua -
> > this will benefit a large number of applications rather than just
> > ardour". unfortunately, nobody has taken the suggestion up, and the
> > projects remain silent and stationary AFAICT.
> 
> Hubert Figuiere seems to be hacking on this recently. You might talk to
> him if you have not already. For instance:
> http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2005/04/15/152-gdkdisplay
> 
> Do also post to gtk-devel about this. People like money.
> 
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