On Wednesday 30 May 2007 01:29:28 Gombok Arthur wrote: > > matthiasm wrote: > >> The bigger question for me right now is, where is FLTK heading? How many > >> users do we have currently, and how many do we want to attract? [...] > > there are many attracted for years, based on a promised better fltk. > - UTF8 (i18n) > - clean API > - themes (FLTK is known as ugly) > - small footprint (sp. for unix) > since there is no default gui on unix (besides x) there is a need. > and some already gave up following fltk fltk-utf8 efltk fltk2.
+10 True, and IMHO those (except maybe for small footprint) will only gain significance in time. > alternatives to *fltk* are claro/fox/juce/toad/ultimate/vcf/... > but i still hope for fulltick. ;) I've "seen" (not used them and/or get to know them thoroughly all of them) libraries (I would say most of free portable libraries available), but I did'nt know of "toad" and "claro", thanks :) Nice list of GUI libraries/frameworks can be found here: http://www.atai.org/guitool/ Some of my light (first) impressions: - Qt: comprehensive/bloated library. IMHO bad as an base toolkit for popular desktop environment, such as KDE, because of licencing which would repel all those who don't want to release their program on GPL terms - for desktop versions on two platform it's cost is: $4950 - wxWidgets: comprehensive/bloated, and uses GTK on Linux. Some complain about macro uses in it, - Juce, it's full of eye candies, and has almost the same "issues" with licensing (I don't say it isn't fair, if you don't wanna make money on it's free otherwise pay for their sweat, but that does'nt chage the fact that it's not completely free), for open source programs it's free, for others it costs: £399 for single product and £699 for any number of products, like they say on their website :) - Ultimate++ is very intereseting toolkit, that as I recall, can have real Windows XP look on Linux :) Some say it has some issues with code style (!?), havent tried it myself though (althoug I might... :)). It has it's own IDE, - V has IMHO ugly motiff look on Linux... (enough said ;)), - VCF is promising toolkit but as I can see there is still no stable Linux port, - Toad is still not stable, cannot say anything else I found out about it today, - Claro, I could'nt access theirs site, - FOX, comprehensice but not too much bloated library with Unicode support, and has the same look on both Windows and Linux - like Windows 98. Again some complain about macro uses. My personal next choice after I explore more few other (Ultimate++ for instance). There are also other but some of them I could'nt see (Claro, Coral...), for a complete list with all obsolete, not developed any more libraries/framework visit above website. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
