[FRIAM] GUI advice/experiences solicited

[Douglas Roberts]

You know, at first blush this would be a problem domain in which I was right
at home, right?

Wrong.  I've always left the gui work for my C++ apps to gui people.
However, I looked over their shoulders a few times, and here is what they
used:

Qt
GTK+
wxWidgets
FLTK


I've mucked a bit with each of those.  They all work.  Some are probably
better than others, but I never progressed beyond hacking out quick & *dirty
* solutions to my immediate requirements.

--Doug


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>  For those of you who do real world software development and in particular,
> who develop GUIs:
>
> What are your experiences/recommendations for a GUI toolkit?
>
> Constraints:
>
>    - C/C++
>    - Cross-platform development (Linux/MacOS preferred)
>     - Windows QA/Deployment
>    - OpenGL (dynamic) compatible
>
> Questions:
>
>    1. How well does resulting UI conform to deployment platform's look &
>    feel
>       - Native mode UIs
>       - OS targeted look/feel emulation
>        2. What are the implications of deployment/licensing?
>       - Customer is fed govt (DoD/DHS)
>       - LGPL licenses should be "ok"?
>       - binary distributions?
>    3. Are there commercial packages that are (well) worth their cost?
>     4. Does the UI have a (useful) GUI builder?
>    5. Do the toolkits that use preprocessors add too much complexity?
>
> Some Obvious Candidates:
>
>    - FLTK <http://www.fltk.org/>,
>    - wxWidgets <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets>
>    - GTK+ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B>
>    - Qt <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28toolkit%29>
>
> Any experiences or opinions?
>
> - Steve
> Los Alamos Visual Analytics
> www.lava3d.com
>
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