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 >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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