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Author Re: Whats a good way to write GUI apps
Kenneth Downs

2007-01-30, 6:59 pm

colin@byonder.co.uk wrote:

>
> I need to write a couple of small GUI applications but have never
> done so on Linux (I'm a C/Delphi programmer on Windows normally)


I came from Foxpro myself in the windows world.

Since you are in a PHP group, here is a PHP answer. While PHP got its start
making web applications, it can also be used to do desktop apps. For
linux, check out the php-gtk project, which lets you use GTK for the
screens and widgets and put PHP behind them:

http://gtk.php.net/


>
> I'm fairly conversant with linux but have never written any code for it.
>
> I know this tends to be subjective and I dont want a flame war but can
> anyone suggest the best language to learn to do this with?
>
> I'm using Centos 4 if that's at all relevant.
>
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> colin


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Curtis

2007-01-31, 9:59 pm

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:44:30 -0800, Kenneth Downs
<knode.wants.this@see.sigblock> wrote:

> colin@byonder.co.uk wrote:
>
>
> I came from Foxpro myself in the windows world.
>
> Since you are in a PHP group, here is a PHP answer. While PHP got its
> start
> making web applications, it can also be used to do desktop apps. For
> linux, check out the php-gtk project, which lets you use GTK for the
> screens and widgets and put PHP behind them:
>
> http://gtk.php.net/
>
>
>


PHP-GTK also runs on Windows.

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