On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 22:18, Arnold Krille wrote: > > As nice as Ardour may be, I personaly still prefer the interfaces of > > modern UI toolkits, in combination with a nice Object Oriented language > > (aka C++ :) ). > > If you want to write C++, why do you want GTK??? Use a C++-toolkit like Qt.
Despite the fact that this is often discussed as a matter of religion, I prefer gtkmm because it fits better into the GNOME environment. Also, this is from the gtkmm-documentation: http://www.murrayc.com/murray/talks/2002/GUADEC3/notes/html/index.html#id2759245 "QT originates from a time when C++ was not standardised or well supported by compilers. Its design today is still based upon the choices available at that time, so it does not play well with more up-to-date code. Development of QT is still effectively closed - There is still no public development mailing list, and TrollTech have the normal corporate conservatism. As an open-source project, its design would have been improved through public debate, and it would have been possible to jettison the baggage. QT duplicates a lot of stuff that is now in the standard library, such as containers and type information. Most significantly, they modified the C++ language to provide signals, so that it's difficult to use QT classes with non-QT classes. gtkmm was able to use standard C++ to provide signals without changing the C++ language. And we use of Standard C++ Library containers such as std::string, std::list, std::vector and their iterators. We even provide STL-style interfaces to other things such as container children, allowing you to use iterators and push_back(), etc with these." So, in essence, gtkmm does it in a more C++ way. :-) (But please let us not make this a flame; may everyone be free to choose whatever toolkit he likes best. ;) ) -Samuel -- ------------------------------------------------------ | Samuel Abels | http://www.debain.org | | spam ad debain dod org | knipknap ad jabber dod org | ------------------------------------------------------
