On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Igor for the wxWidgets clarification. NP. After 7 years working with the library, submitting patches to it and doing development with it I guess I'm "overqualified" to work with it. ;-) So, does the position requires wx knowledge? Thx. > > 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
