[LAD] FLTK vs GTKmm

[Raymond Martin]

On Monday 10 August 2009 06:11:08 Christian wrote:
> >>> I'm just curious what your long-time experiences with these
> >>> gui-libraries are.
> >>> Considering to use one of these two but can't really decide.
> >>> But I do not want to switch in a year or two...
> >>
> >> Well, I can't say anything about developing with either one of them, but
> >> I think you should also take into account how the result will look and
> >> feel.
> >>
> >> All examples of FLTK I know of look horribly out of place on a modern
> >> desktop. Like, the 80ies want their GUIs back!
> >
> > There are other GUI toolkits that can look so much better. For instance,
> > Qt and wxWidgets. Why are you settling for the two choices given?
> >
> > Raymond
>
> Well I don't want to get into qt as I don't need these dependencies(and
> qmake)

You can always recompile with less dependencies, and you do not have
to use qmake to compile either. You can use CMake or something else.

> And I don't like wxWidgets example code.

Seems like an odd reason to rule it out. Have you seen Audacity? Looks
pretty good, IMO.

Raymond