rsnd

c/c++

Need some advice to start off. Want to learn something that is cross compitable with all windowing system like KDE and Gnome and X and u know the big list. Or are they like...auto cross compitable?

Thanks

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Arevos

KDE uses the Qt toolkit, which is released under the GPL and created in C++. GNOME uses GTK, which is released under the LGPL and created in C.

GNOME programs can run under KDE and vice versa. The only problem lies in the presentation; GTK and Qt use different theme engines, so the applications produced with them always look subly different, though projects like the GTK-Qt engine and common themes like Redhat's bluecurve go some way toward solving the problem.

So you can use either toolkit, though the application you'll produce in them will have slight visual differences. I prefer Qt, myself.

AICkieran

Check WxWidgets out,

'wxWidgets gives you a single, easy-to-use API for writing GUI applications on multiple platforms. Link with the appropriate library for your platform (Windows/Unix/Mac, others coming shortly) and compiler (almost any popular C++ compiler), and your application will adopt the look and feel appropriate to that platform. On top of great GUI functionality, wxWidgets gives you: online help, network programming, streams, clipboard and drag and drop, multithreading, image loading and saving in a variety of popular formats, database support, HTML viewing and printing, and much much more.'

http://www.wxwidgets.org/

Arevos

WxWidgets always struck me as a little... bitty. Besides, rsnd was asking about cross-platform GUI libraries on Linux. Since WxWidgets uses GTK on Linux as it's toolkit, why not cut out the middleman?

AICkieran

True, It was just a suggestion, thanks for clearing that up

niteice

Well, wxWidgets is a lot more cross-platform than GTK - on Windows/Mac OS, it simply calls the native API so things look far far better.

Ooble

There's a Windows theme for GTK+ on Windows, so there's nothing wrong with using GTK+. Well, apart from the fact that I don't like it.

My favourite is Qt - it's easy to work with.

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Arevos

It still seems bitty and less solid than GTK is. Bittorrent switched from wxWidgets to GTK, so presumably Bram Cohen had similar impressions.

And Qt 4 integrates natively with Windows, I believe, and is GPLed. Though no PyQt 4 as yet