Re: Wizard GUI for X

[David Given <dg@...>]

Daniel Quintela wrote:
[...]
> Because I never built a GUI for the X platform without using wxWidgets 
> or FLTK, I have a question for the experts:
> Is it possible to build a "user friendly", lightweight and nice X GUI 
> (wizard style) in 500 lines ?

Sure.

The bulk of the problem is designing the UI. The recommended way to do 
this is to use some sort of GUI painter; Glade is the one I use for GTK 
and Gnome, there's a similar one for Qt. Once you've done this, all your 
program has to do is to load the UI, initialise any components with 
dynamic content, attach callbacks to various trigger components, and go.

The only UI I've dealt with non-trivially is GTK, which is pretty 
straightforward to use and C based. I haven't used Qt, which is C++ based.

That said, if you're used to wxWidgets, stick with it --- there are GTK 
and Qt backends for it, and there's nothing like working in something 
you know.

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