On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Michael B Golden wrote:
> I am looking for a tool or set of libraries to develop GUIs with.
> I currently have Visual TCL, but I don't know TCL, so it only looks
> pretty. One advantage to it though is cross-platform. What I am looking
> for is a Visual type tool like vtcl, but I want to be able to code in
> C/C++ instead of TCL. Cross platform would be appreciated, but not
> required. I would like to use the gtk+ widget set for Linux development,
> but I also need a widget set in which I can develop apps for FreeBSD and
> make them look _exactly_ as if they were native Win9X apps. Any ideas for
> either of these? I am willing to learn how to make GUIs with coding
> instead of a Visual tool, but I'm not sure how to do so, or what
> libraries to use. Any tutorials or easy to understand, but detailed, man
> pages related to this? I would prefer Graphical development which I could
> tweak with code though. Are there any tools like this?
>
> P.S. I need to be able to compile them, which is another reason I can't
> use TCL. Some is for a project which it is quite necessary to have be
> closed source, but most will be GPL.
A good GUI IDE is KDevelop. It is similar in look to VC++. You get a nice
class browser, interface to GNU debugger, integrated dialog editor, etc. You
can use it to create generic C/C++ apps, QT apps or KDE apps.
As for a widget set, I can't help but recommend QT. It's an easy and powerful
toolkit.
But you also mentioned that you might be doing some closed source
projects. Unfortunately, the free edition QT, as well as any GPL toolkit, don't
allow linking to closed source projects. However, if you're going to get paid
for these projects, you might want to look at the QT Professional Edition.
Although this costs money, you can now use QT to create commercial or closed
source programs, as well as giving you Win32 libraries for effortless cross
platform development.
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