[LAD] Looking for an introduction to rt programming with a gui

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Thu May 20 14:32:12 UTC 2010


Excerpts from Arnout Engelen's message of 2010-05-20 16:19:01 +0200:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:37:07AM -0500, Gabriel Beddingfield wrote:
> > Another option is to use a scripting language (like Tcl/Tk, PyGtk, or
> > PyQt) for the GUI parts.  However, when you're mixing it with your
> > core C/C++ parts, I find it really hard to debug these programs.
> 
> While working on jack_mixer[1], I was pleasantly surprised by being able
> to use gdb to get backtraces from the C code even when it was called from
> the Python frontend. 
> 
> The interfacing between Python and C could be easier though.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arnout
> 
> [1] http://home.gna.org/jackmixer/

It seems like lua is a good choice when you need to interface with C,
but for some reason I can't name a single project that uses lua for the
GUI.
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Regards,
Philipp




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