On 17.09.2010, at 08:19, pratvik.roy wrote: > can any one please guide me with the installation steps of FLTK. > like which version best suits for windows XP , what has to be done after > downloading the setup file and things like that.
As Ian wrote already, that depends on the tools you are using. If you are new to program development on Windows, I recommend to install the MinGW/MSYS tools for a start. If you prefer working with an IDE, Microsoft's free compiler tools Visual Studio 2008 Express (or 2010 Express) are another way to get free compiler tools. However, the MinGW tools use standard autoconf/make and are better suited for (maybe later) cross platform development (as you may know, FLTK can also be used for Unix/Linux and Mac OS X). There are also other (IDE) development tools, but the FLTK team can't support these very well. Which FLTK version? I recommend starting with FLTK 1.1.10, the current released stable version. Although FLTK 1.1 will not be developed any more, this is a good starting point. FLTK 1.1 uses standard 8-bit character sets, in Windows this is the "current code page" used in Windows. If you don't know what this means, don't worry, just start... If you want to write software for international use, you might need Unicode text support, and this would mean that you should use FLTK 1.3, but this is not released yet and may have some bugs. However, FLTK 1.3 is declared to be API-compatible with FLTK 1.1, so you can switch between both as you like (unless you're using non-ASCII characters, like German Umlauts äöü or other special characters). Note that FLTK 2.0 is experimental, currently not maintained, and not released. We don't recommend using it for a start. For further information about the "right" version please see http://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L825 > i am pretty new to GUI development. > any good book or online tutorial suggestions would be of great help. You should definitely start reading the FLTK docs from the beginning. In chapter 2 (FLTK Basics) there is a tutorial that shows you the first steps. You can find the docs online: http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.1/ http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/ and the tutorials at http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.1/basics.html http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/basics.html > hope to get some reply and get started with GUI devp pretty soon. > Thanks in advance, You're welcome. Whenever you have more questions, ask here... Albrecht _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
