Re: KDE 2.1.1 rocks!

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Kalum / Grendel wrote:
> On  Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Fahad Al-Duraibi commented thusly,
> It is a C++ library to make applications developement under X11 much more
> easier, just like MFC (Microsoft foundation classes) and  OWL did the same
> for windoze.
> 
> > i tried to program using GUI in older Linux but i gave up. Will this qt make
> 
> Please dont use C, as almost all the options available for C gi
> programming like GTK available sux, and IMHO a gui app should be
> progremmaed in C++ as the code complexity is much less and the
> extensibility, freedom is much greater with C++.
> 
> So use C++, and select a good library, earlier we only had qt as a
> viable option for applications developement under C++, but fltk
> <fltk.org> is another excellent choice. You will enjoy progamming X using
> one of this toolkits.

gtk-- is out there too.

At one time I saw some C++ wrappers for other toolkits.
Or try python, Red Hat uses it for their install/config apps.
There's always Tk/Tcl for small stuff too, like Xcdroast or
some SANE frontends.

I dissagree that C++ is the best way to go.
Qt is portable to Windows (If you buy ($$$) the windows DLLs)
but if that's what you want look at kylix (
http://www.borland.com/kylix/ )
the linux version of Delphi. It's Object Oreinted Pascal
and is supposed to be portable to windows.

Of course X11 is still written in C. Mos apps you use
in X11 are written in C, using Xt,gtk+, Motif, and the other
C toolkits. GLADE is A nicer way to write form GNOME.
You get a GUI to design the UI, with menus and dialogs,
then add the code for what happens. SO you don't have
to worry as much about drawing the windows and other parts.
I also allows the users theme settings to be used much easier.
And changed on the fly.

	-Thomas