[linux-audio-dev] Re: Which widgets?

[Loki Davison]

On 2/25/06, james at dis-dot-dat.net <james at dis-dot-dat.net> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I've always steered clear of writing GUIs, so my experience is pretty
> limited.  But now I find myself needing a toolkit/widget set.
>
> What's recommended?  I'd prefer not to have to move my app from C to
> C++ just to implement the interface, so that's quite a few out of the
> window.
>
> I don't really want huge dependencies for a knob, text box and a
> button, either.
>
> And something that's installed as default in most distros would be
> good, too.
>
> So, what I want is everything.  And it should be simple, too.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> James
>
> --
> "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development
> That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb.  Thank you."
> (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
>

You can check out smack's very simple former gui (still in svn but
disabled) or any dssi gui many are written in gtk and are nice
examples to learn from. In smack's gui i create a grouping widget so i
don't have to cope with cruft for each extra row of buttons.

Loki