[Liverpool] Way back into technical topics

[Sebastian Arcus]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the useful comments. I also looked at wxWidgets, but they use 
native widgets on every platform. In spite of the majority of people 
(apparently) preferring native widgets, I actually like the idea that my 
app would look the same on all platforms - and not take the look and 
feel of native apps (and thus produce somewhat unpredictable/different 
behaviour on different platforms).

GnuCash (among many other pieces of software) is done in GTK+ (they 
started about 1996 I think) - and it runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. It 
seems to work just fine for them, so I suppose GTK+ should be a 
perfectly usable alternative on Windows for everyone else, shouldn't it?

Sebastian



On 03/10/2011 09:00 AM, Bob Ham wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 19:22 +0000, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
>
>> I'm planning on starting to learn GTK+ (and brush up on my C in the
>> process) as a handy tool for building apps
>
> GTK+ and C are not really what I'd describe as "handy" :-)  Probably
> python and pyGTK would be more appropriate.
>
>> What I like about GTK+:
>
>> 2. Haven't look closely, but I guess there should be
>> bindings/libraries/drivers for interfacing with most database engines.
>
> GTK+ doesn't contain any database access functionality; there is a
> separate project for that called GNOME-DB, with a library called libgda:
>
>    http://www.gnome-db.org/
>
>> 3. I assume it has suitable support for things like printing, file
>> system access, various peripherals access in both Windows and Linux
>> (some of them less to do with GTK+ and more to do with libraries
>> available for C, I guess).
>
> GTK+ 3 I believe has printing support and an abstracted file system
> interface.  Previously they were part of GNOME.  Glib provides many
> cross-platform implementations of common OS operations (eg, file system
> manipulation, threads, sockets, etc.)
>
>> Does anybody here have experience with working with GTK+?
>
> Yes, loads :-)
>
>> Any thoughts
>> for, or against?
>
> GTK+ is the best toolkit I've ever used :-)  When I need a quick user
> interface, I use python and pyGTK.  But then I don't do Windows.
>
>> I am after a widget set/framework which can generate
>> apps for both Windows and Linux.
>
> I'm not so sure I'd use GTK+ for Windows development.  Maybe the new
> GTK+ 3 will be better than GTK+ 2.  Or maybe wxWidgets is what you want:
>
>    http://www.wxwidgets.org/
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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