Off Topic: GUI programming

[Ken Moffat]

Auke Kok wrote:

> 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
>


I have used wxwindows with python for simple gui apps with success, and 
it is cross platform, and quick to learn. I have not tried gtk, sorry.

-- 
ken