Unix Programming - widget tool kits

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widget tool kits

jamiil

2008-01-29, 7:26 pm

One of te most beautiful aspects of living this times is that most of
the walls have come down.
The wall that existed between Unix and MS-Windows has, greatly,
fallen, so, when writing a program we must consider Unix and MSW
users. However, with the huge number of widget-toolkits promising
portability and speed in most of the operating systems, I find it hard
to decide which of the C/C++ toolkits to use.
So, I would like to ask everyone what Widget Tool Kit you recommend
that will not only make my programs portable, but that will also
increase my marketability as a programmer/developer.

Thank you in advance

Lars Uffmann

2008-01-30, 8:23 am

jamiil wrote:
> So, I would like to ask everyone what Widget Tool Kit you recommend
> that will not only make my programs portable, but that will also
> increase my marketability as a programmer/developer.

I haven't yet set my decision in stone, but I would recommend wxWidgets
- the licensing isn't as complicated as Qt, and there's an active
community. There's one big drawback however, in my eyes: The concept of
"sizers" - each and every positioning in any window you create when done
with sizers (and not using them is highly discouraged and not even
possible in wxFormBuilder, for instance) is relative - you can say this
is left of that, that block is above this one - and even say "this area
gets 30% of the width of the parent while the other gets 70%" - but that
is about all. No absolute positioning, and thus no drag & drop and easy
resizing of widgets - very hard to get used to for me right now. But I
think it's worth it and it definitely ensures maximum portability.

Best Regards,

Lars

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