> I was looking around at the website and noticed a poll that asks > what version users are using and the results showed that fltk-2 is > the second most used version (after fltk-1.1), so how come fltk-2 > was dropped if it is so popular?
It's not so much dropped, as just completely unsupported because there are no longer any active FLTK-2 developers. As a result it causes much frustration amongst new users who download it thinking that it must be the most up-to-date version and then find that there are various bugs in it that are unlikely ever to be be fixed. Hence the reason why users are encouraged to use FLTK-1.1.10 as this is a stable, and well-debugged release that fixes many of the bugs that were discovered since the FLTK-2.0 fork. All active development is now focussed on FLTK-1.3.x for the moment, which has all of the FLTK-1.1.10 functionality, but with added UTF-8 for non-Latin character support, and more recently, printing support. However, there are some programming interface changes that might require some rework of your own code. Many of the FLTK-1.* users and developers will readily admit that some features of FLTK-2.0 are an improvement over FLTK-1.* but can't/won't switch because they have commercial applications or other large bodies of code that benefit from the stability of FLTK-1.*, the help available here, and on-going development and bug-fixing. The FLTK-1.3.x team may be small, but it is still active, and progresss is still being made. Hope this answers your question. D. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
