You know, I also have not done any GUI work.  But I have heard of some tools
that you may find useful.  They are:
FLTK
GTK+
Qt
wxWidgets

The third one in the list - Qt - is sometimes pronounced "cutie," even
though it is not spelled that way.  Also, "widgets" are quite popular in
Economics classes.

-Ted

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]> 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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