On 07/18/2012 04:50 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
What is important here is speed and painless ramp-up to some fairly low
level. I want to be up and running as fast as possible with as little
coding as possible. No need for bells and whistles. No need for long
term maintenance. It is for a throw away demo/prototype - and yes, I am
sure it (the GUI part) will be thrown away.
Any suggestions / experiences / war stories / whatever?
I've been using fltk since 1999, with great success. It is remarkably
simple compared to just about every other framework out there, and it is
ridiculously fast (but only slightly less capable than Qt). This is the
toolkit that CinePaint switched to from GTK.
It is "C+-" style - that is, it is C++ as it was usable in the year
2000: Classes, but no multiple inheritance; no exceptions or rtti used;
threads supported by virtue of keeping GUI on one thread, and providing
simple signaling to the GUI thread.
It is "90s" style - that is, there are a lot of globals. Don't diss it
until you've tried - the code is simpler and faster as a result, and
nothing is missing; e.g., if you want to draw text in in red with
helvetica, size 10, you just do:
fl_font(FL_HELVETICA, 10);
fl_color(FL_RED);
fl_draw("text", x, y);
It is very well documented, and comes with tens of simple-to-understand
yet very useful examples.
If you do take fltk, you want the recently released 1.3 branch (ignore 2.0).
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