[SGVLUG] X11 gui programming - suggestions please

Doug Vargas dougvargas at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 24 14:06:58 PDT 2012


I myself love wxWidgets, it's cross platform and provides lots of tools, but so do qt and gtk+. The site netcode has some tutorials on all three, you could check them out and see which one you like. As you mentioned curses might work, and it's surprisingly easy to code.

Robert Leyva <mrflash818 at geophile.net> wrote:

>Greets
>
>I am working on a hobbyist project to generate a coded text file based on
>user input.
>
>I am using C++, and MVC design pattern(s).
>
>For the GUI (view the user will interact with) I am researching gtk,
>curses, and such, but never have used any of them before on a project.
>
>Hoping my fellow SGVLUGers might have ideas/suggestions based on your
>experience doing GUI programming.
>
>I dont' think I will need to draw graphics or images. At this stage I
>expect my GUI would just need to view/display/intake keyboard text.
>
>
>Thanks
>-- 
>"Knowledge is Power" -- Sir Francis Bacon
>
>Robert Leyva
>mrflash818 at geophile.net
>
>
>


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