Mike Werner wrote: > > I'm finally getting to the point with C that I plan on finally trying to > hack together a few small programs that I've been thinking about for some > time now.
> I'd like to also put together a GUI frontend for some of them > at some point. However I have zero experience with GUI programming. I > know that there are a number of different GUI toolkits out there - TCL/TK, > GTK, Motif, Lesstif, and probably a bunch more. Are there any that would > be more recommended for a beginner? > > I'm not looking to do anything fancy yet - just the basics so I can learn > how it all works. Any ideas? Tcl/Tk has nothing to do with C, they are actually two different languages (Tcl and Tk). Motif and Lesstif are roughly the same (Lesstif is a GPL'd source level compatible clone of Motif. Motif is commercial and costs $$). I did my first GUI programming in Lesstif and it was not all that difficult. You should be able to come up with a good Lesstif/Motif tutorial on the 'net somewhere (see www.lesstif.org as well). I haven't used GTK but I have heard that it is good and especially that the tutorials are excellent. See www.gtk.org. Developer deb's should be available for Lesstif & GTK. Qt is another option (the library used by KDE), except that's supported best with C++. Good Luck! Matthew
