Thanks Igor for the wxWidgets clarification. On 9/18/17, Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Carsten Mattner > <carstenmattner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 9/18/17, Ian Chapman <ichapman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> This is not a troll, only a trawler as in fishing boat. I found the >>> discourse on “traditional file chooser” quite interesting and >>> informative. I'm using glade 3.18.3 and I'm able to do useful work so >>> possibly I'm off subject. >>> >>> Point 1 >>> >>> In glade I can select GtkMenuItem and GtkImageMenuItem and when I look >>> at the GTK+ 3 Reference Manual the latter is depreciated. It's working >>> great so I wonder what depreciated actually implies? At some time in the >>> future will it vanish and working software will fail or simply fail to >>> compile on the newer distribution? >> >> That's how I interpret it. Case in point Raleigh theme which was never, >> from what I can tell, intended to be a replacement for the Gtk2 Raleigh >> theme. It didn't look right and now it just looks completely broken. >> If something is supposed to be removed, there's no need to make 3.x >> seem like it supports it and remove it in 4.x, when the version in 3.x >> isn't supported and working by sheer luck. This is what I read from the >> info I can gather and not meant to be an attack. I'm just trying to >> stitch >> together a picture. >> >>> Point 2 >>> >>> Lots of acronyms were mentioned. Qt was one and it's in the LMDE >>> repositories. Wiki has a long list of GUIs in >>> “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits”; but only a few >>> could be of interest. In any case there would be a learning curve to use >>> any them and maybe no glade which greatly simplifies Gtk for me. Is >>> there an evaluation on these alternative GUIs? >> >> With all due respect and apologies to the list admins, allow me to >> answer this here although it's kinda advertising for "competitors". >> >> Ian, Qt and FLTK have GUI builders and FLTK generates code, not markup. >> Qt is used heavily with the declarative variant QML in entertainment >> systems of cars and such. If QML is something that works for you >> and the licensing is compatible, then consider a lunch break checking >> it out. >> If you're writing engineering software that doesn't have requirement >> that mandate Qt or Gtk, then FLTK or IUP have been used successfully >> in that domain. >> >> Qt has Haskell bindings (Qtah). >> wxWidgets has Gtk2, Gtk3, Qt5 backends and bindings pretty much >> everywhere, but there's no GUI builder I know of. > > wxWidgets does have GUI builders - wxGlade, wxFormBuilder, wxCrafter to > name a few. > It also works on both MS Windows and OSX without any issues. > > If you requirements are to have a "native look and feel" of the software > then wxWidgets is the way to go. > > The license is free for both O/S and commercial applications. > > It has bindings for all popular languages - Python, Perl, Ruby. > > On Linux GTK is the most developed and most mature port. > wxQt is relatively new and wxX11 (so called Universal) is not actively > developed. wxMotiff is really outdated and will be removed in future > versions. > > Thank you. > >> FLTK has a GUI builder and the Haskell bindings also generate >> Haskell code when using the GUI builder. Just in case you had >> interest in a different language. >> IUP is plain C and has been used in many brazilian industrial >> applications. Check the screenshots section. >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-list mailing list >> gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
