From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 16:42:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA00976 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:42:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [207.227.50.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA00962 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randyd@nconnect.net) Received: from arabian (birddog-mke-x2-112.nconnect.net [207.227.61.112]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA29712; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:39:20 -0600 (CST) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:42:29 -0600 Message-ID: <01BD1B9C.018F2B50.randyd@nconnect.net> From: Randall D DuCharme Reply-To: "randyd@nconnect.net" To: "'Kees Jan Koster'" , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: RE: Which X-windows C++ GUI builders? Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:41:58 -0600 Organization: Astrolab Development X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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