wxWidgets

[markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org]

> wxWidgets is a pretty good cross-platform API, but I prefer QT.  QT has a
> very nice structure, easy to port and a nice WYSIWYG GUI designer which
> makes creating a GUI child's play.  Just throwing it out there in case
> anyone else wants to know about good cross-platform API's...
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I did look at QT. I have to confess a little hypocrisy, I didn't want to
pay and I didn't want to release as GPL. Am I a bad person?

(I do have a good amount of GPL stuff out there, but I wanted try to sell
this service and there was an amount of non-trivial expertise directly
related to the product embodied in the code, so I guess I am a hypocrite
on some level.)

The wxWidget system is LGPL2 with a few extra provisions that make it
almost as permissive as BSD.

> - Jared
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> Subject: wxWidgets
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> I have been looking for a way to support Windows, Mac, and Linux for a
> project. I was toying with using Java, but that means people have to have
> a working java installation or "I" need to be able install java for them.
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> I asked a while back for a mac guy to do some basic app framework stuff,
> (I already had a command line program, I needed GUI stuff done.) and got
> some pointers to some useful projects (thanks BTW!)
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> Then, I had a vague memory of a pretty cheesy project called wxWindows
> many years back. It was pretty weak, but might be a good enough start. I
> wondered if it were still available. I wondered if they supported Mac. A
> quick google later, I found wxWidgets (Borg induced name change). It has
> come a long way and looks pretty decent.
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> If you are facing a similar issue of wanting to create a GUI app, but
> don't want to be tied to a particular platform, this looks pretty good.
> They support Mac, Windows, and POSIX. (Linux, etc.) The cool part is that
> they have multiple GUI methodologies on Linux, i.e. Motif, X11, GTK.
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> If there is interest, I'll write up a review of my experience getting a
> simple project up on three platforms when I am done.
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