Has anyone used the GNUstep framework before? Unlike many of the other
options (which are written in C++), this one is easy to access through C
bindings, and therefore easy to access from Julia (
https://github.com/one-more-minute/ObjectiveC.jl). It also happens to be
native on one platform (Apple), so it is quite full featured.


On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:53 PM Matt Gushee <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another possibility is IUP [http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/].
> It is a cross-platform GUI library that takes a 'wrapper' approach: like
> wxWidgets, it uses GTK widgets on X11 platforms and native widgets on
> Windows. Unlike wxWidgets, it has a straight C API, and I believe is a good
> deal simpler to use. It possibly lacks some features you would want if you
> were building an office suite or a full-featured IDE, but for most purposes
> I think it is quite sufficient.
>
> I created a Gist showing how you might use IUP from Julia to create a text
> editor with a Scintilla editing pane:
> https://gist.github.com/mgushee/3a3f032440219bc045b0 . I think my code is
> mostly correct; in fact, most parts of it work in isolation, but it
> segfaults when you try to create a menu from a list of menu items. I must
> be doing something wrong, but I'm a Julia newbie and not much of a C
> programmer, so I have no idea why.
>
> But anyway, have a look and see what you think!
>
> --
> Matt Gushee
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Andreas Lobinger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello colleagues,
>>
>> what is status of availability and usecases for GUI toolkits.
>>
>> I see Tk and Gtk on the pkg.julialang.org. Gtk has the tag 'doesn't
>> load' from testing, Tk seems OK.
>> In a recent discussion here, Tim Holy mentioned himself tesing Qwt and Qt
>> in general seem to be a testcase for Cxx.
>>
>> Do i miss something here?
>>
>> Wishing a happy day,
>>      Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>

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