On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:01 -0700, John Taber wrote: > Hi all, > Murray suggested I pass these on to the list for ideas - note comments are > coming from the perspective of searching for the best GUI toolkit for > ourselves. as info so far I have been comparing: Qt, Gtkmm, Fltk, Wxwidgets, > java, XFC, Fox, Ultimate++. Maybe some day I'll actually get the paper > posted on the web somewhere. > > I have been doing a pretty extensive comparison between the different > cross-platform toolkits - in short, gtkmm is very appealing due to basis on > gtk which is being strongly supported (although we really dislike the new > file > chooser and cancel before okay buttons) and I'm biased towards c++ over c. > Gtkmm might want to borrow some ideas from XFC in terms of documentation and > examples (I really found XFC to be excellent in this area).
The gtkmm book has examples and screenshots. > Also gtkmm > is lacking in screenshot examples of applications using it (this is very > important when trying to "sell" the idea of using it to others - first > impresssions are so key). ie Examples showing gtkmm able to use opengl, 2d > drawing, svg(for our unique needs), handling images, rich text / html > display, tables, etc This is really a GTK+ thing, because gtkmm can do whatever GTK+ can do. Clearly the GNOME Desktop contains GTK+-based software that does most of these things, and I'm sure you can easily find GTK+-based stuff to do opengl as well. If it's important to you to have screenshots of these all together on one page, then I suggest you go ahead. > - these are the key areas we have compared between > toolkits as must features. Also the library dependencies seem scary more so > than some other toolkits For linux at least, you should be using the distro's package management, which should take care of all this. > - maybe it's not true - a sample makefile for linux > and windows might address this. Gtkmm scored pretty well on developer input > (we look for more than 1-man projects) and very well on frequency of updates > - we got the feeling of pretty stable, bug-free code (you never really know > until you're knee deep in it - that's why the examples of other apps are so > key). Plus we use the Inkscape project as a great role model and they seem > pretty happy with gtkmm so far. -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
