[Tfug] wxWidgets

[Jude Nelson]

If you're looking for lightweight over pretty, FLTK is a pretty good
choice.  It's really easy to use and has great documentation.

Regards,
Jude

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi, Jeremy,
>
> --- On Sat, 8/30/08, Jeremy D Rogers <jdrogers at optics.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> > I started playing with wx a few years ago and that project stalled.
> > The docs are sparse (or were a few years ago), but the examples for
> > wxpython are awesome. I think the nicest cross-platform out there in
> > wx is bitpim. If you are on Debian, aptitude install wx2.8-examples
> > and run the example app. It shows a lot of the features and might
> > help. However, since I kind of stalled on it, I probably can't answer
> > how it suits your needs. I also don't have any experience with others
> > to compare to, but I had looked at alternatives, and it seemed like
> > choices were limited. I remember something with Fox in the name and qt
> > which has a mucked up license for windows, but that was about it.
>
> Yes, unfortunately it seems most of the "open" solutions have
> a boatload of dependancies -- which suggests a nightmare to
> ]maintain (since each of those dependancies now imposes itself
> on your application) *and* a really bloated solution.
>
> I looked at jpilot (a palm pilot work-alike built on this stuff)
> and found it sluggish even on a 1GHz machine.  Of course, I'm
> not looking at what it's doing "under the hood" -- just how
> quickly the screen appears/updates (though I don't consider
> that sort of application particularly "strenuous"!).
>
> Limbo-tk was nice (i.e., tk with limbo playing the role that
> tcl would otherwise play) in that you could hack together a
> screen with a dozen "lines of code" and *talk* to that screen
> with a similar number.  This is a big win when you're just trying
> to get stuff *done* and not trying to come up with the next
> whiz-bang skinned over "pretty toy"...
>
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