[Gllug] graphical interface

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:04:15PM +0000, J F wrote:
> I wrote a console-based C program recently that I intend to share
> with my colleagues. However, they're having a hard time getting to
> grips with it, complaining it's not very 'user friendly'. So I want to
> give it a graphical interface, but I don't know how I should go about
> this.
>
> Should I try GTK? I'm not much of a programmer... would it be
> difficult to learn? Also, my colleagues use Mac OS X, would I be able
> to port it, using GTK?

Gtk is certainly one possibility.  You'll want to start off with the
Gtk tutorial [http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/].  It's possible to run Gtk
applications on Mac OS X, but the resulting applications don't look
like Mac apps, and require you to be running the X server.

If you're willing to recompile your app with a C++ compiler, then two
other possibilities are WxWidgets [http://www.wxwidgets.org/] and Qt
[http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/].  These have the advantage
over Gtk that it's much simpler to write a Mac OS X-friendly port of
the application if you use them.

Rich.

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