On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, ahmet alper parker wrote: > Dear all, I am planning to develop a c/c++ application and I > am searching for a good gui designer and found gtk+ and glade. > I have a simple question. If I develop a gui with glade will > it be platform independent? (or how I can achieve this?) Do I > need gtk+ to be supported at all platforms (in ex. linux/unix > mac windows etc...)
GTK is an excellent toolkit, and it offers very decent cross-platform operability. But there are a few things to watch out for. First of all, yes, you need a gtk+ runtime on all platforms. Glade is basically a design tool, not a substitute for the gtk libraries. Then there's an issue with gtk versions. The latest and greatest works fine on GNU/Linux and (I think) Windows XP and related OSs. It doesn't work on win98 -- for that you have to back up to an earlier version. And GTK on Mac OS X is a bit fiddly. There's a "native" OS X verson of gtk, but it's not stable yet. The alternative is running the X11 version on OS X, which is quite doable but requires quite a lot of setup. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
