Off Topic: GUI programming

[jan]

Hello,

An interesting alternative which might be interesting for you:

www.freepascal.org as language

and lazarus.freepascal.org as IDE.

Especially Lazarus IDE is an interesting choice. Allows to create GUI
and then compile using either gtk, win32, gtk2, qt - it is multiplatform
and multiwidget RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool.

Ciao
Jan

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 02:04, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Xavier Otazu wrote:
> 
> >	Hi!
> >
> >	I would like to ask an off-topic question to this list because here there are a
> >lot of (good!) Linux GUI programmers.
> >
> >	We (three persons and me) are teaching Software Engineering at 4th
> >undergraduate year, and next year we would like to switch to Linux platform
> >(actually we are on MS-Windows). The reason is that the tool we are using
> >(Rational software) is expensive, difficult to maintain (because of
> >incompatibilities with Win-2000 or with new XP Service Pack versions), unstable
> >and we cannot distribute Rational to our alumni because of Rational license
> >terms. We have searched on OpenSource tools and we think we can substitute many
> >Rational tools with Linux ones (kdeveloper, Umbrello, CVS, subversion,
> >valgrind-valgui, etc).
> >
> >	The ultimate (and the ONLY) problem is that one of the topic we teach
> >is GUI design. Thus, alumni have to work, i.e. to program, with GUI. I know
> >there exists several GUI libraries implementations for Linux (Qt, GTK+,
> >wxWindows, Motif, the GFC Jeff Franks posted in this list, etc ...), but I don't
> >know them deeply. Another problem, is that our alumni doesn't have much
> >experience with Linux. In fact, they neither know anything about MFC nor Visual
> >C++, but actually we teach them two classes about MFC to introduce basic
> >concepts.
> >
> >	Hence, my question is, what do you think is the best GUI library to teach using
> >Linux platform? Alumni should be able to perform the most basic tasks (create a
> >dialog, insert buttons, react to button clicking, etc) with two introduction
> >sessions.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> wxWindows is cross-platform, available on both linux and windows, and 
> usable in many languages (c, python, perl, etc.) Have a look at
> 
> http://www.wxwindows.org/
> 
> http://www.bzzt.net/~wxwindows/icpp_wx1.html
> 
>