Off Topic: GUI programming

[Auke Kok]

Ken Moffat wrote:

> Xavier Otazu wrote:
>
>>     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


okay I'll bite. From what I have seen written on WxWindows it maybe a 
good idea but there are hardly properly written applications for this 
toolkit. As a matter of fact, I consider the WxWindows tookkit API 
utterly unstable and not capable of producing something maintainable. 
The gtk2 implementation of Wx is hopelessly broken, and requires you to 
jump through loops to get programs compiled.

For beginners, I would never recommend this toolkit. The native python 
bindings for gtk2 for instance are much easier (the perl ones too, even 
any other binding).

Plain gtk2 seems a good start, especially since the gtk2 toolkit 
promotes a strutured placement of widgets, something which other 
toolkits do not do.

sofar