Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:41:58 -0600 From: Randall D DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net> To: "'Kees Jan Koster'" <dutchman@tccn.cs.kun.nl>, FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Which X-windows C++ GUI builders? Message-ID: <01BD1B9C.018F2B50.randyd@nconnect.net>
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On Wednesday, January 07, 1998 4:20 PM, Kees Jan Koster [SMTP:dutchman@tccn.cs.kun.nl] wrote: > Dear Questions, > > I've been playing with Visual Basic lately Sorry to hear that ;-) > Is there something similar user FreeBSD? Preferably, I'd like to work > with C++ as programming language. I've used several nice X libraries. If you're comfortable with C++ you should be able to use qt. It's in the ports tree. I've done some nice things with that. I've also used 'V' which I found somewhere on the net. If I remember, it took a wee bit of pounding to get it to build on my machine, but after that it worked well. The Athena Widget set is pretty nice to but I find using it gets a bit tedious. For some reason it reminds me of Borland OWL programming, I don't know why. My favorite GUI tool for X is the XForms toolkit. It has a little GUI builder and you can very quickly create an interface for X. > Is there a GUI library that can do both X11 and (say) cons25? It would > be nice for simple applications to come up in graphical or text mode, > depending on the output device. I'm not expecting miracles here, but > something that can do simple menus and standard dialogs. I've done some things using ncurses for cons25 and XForms for X, to access the same database backend. I don't know of anything like what you're looking for but if one exists, I'll be a much happier programmer!! :-) Good Luck --- Randall D DuCharme Systems Engineer Novell, Microsoft, and UNIX Networking Support Computer Specialists BSDI Internet Success Partners 414-253-9998 414-253-9919 (fax) BSD/OS Authorized Resellers
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