The advantage of using Qt or Gtk compared with some of the other gui toolkits mentioned (fltk, Tcl/Tk, SDL, or Matlab GUI) are that they are complete (lots of widgets, internationalization and localization support etc) if the prototype turns into something bigger than was initially envisioned. To often have I seen tools that were written like "oh, its's only for me" and then a company is trying to figure out how to deploy and support the tool. I therefore thing it is worth taking the time to learn complexity of one of these GUI's, and then use it.
The language is a separate issue from the GUI. The difference between Qt and Gtk is that Qt was from the beginning written to be tighly coupled with C++, whereas gtk (actually the glib model) was written so that it is easy to bind it to various languages. There is even a special GObject (the base class of gtk) dedicated language. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_%28programming_language%29 . True, there are some bindings to Qt, e.g. the official python binding PySide, but the huge amount of bindings to gtk shows that it is a much easier task. In short, decide a language and a toolkit. Take time to learn it. It is well worth your time. Regards, Dov On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:29 PM, yochai <yoc...@titat.info> wrote: > Shlomi, > > I gave it as an idea as I understood he doesn't need a full GUI or > anything with a shiny look but to print a lot of data very fast. > > I'm sorry if I miss-understood anything. > > Yochai > > On 07/19/2012 12:12 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:02 PM, yochai <yoc...@titat.info> wrote: > >> Sorry, I thought it will be clear what I'm speaking about. > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_DirectMedia_Layer > >> > > > > I would recommend against SDL, because creating a decent GUI with it > > will require a lot of work, and on top of it will give you a giant > > window of raw graphics in the screen, which isn't very user-friendly > > or impressive. SDL is good enough for games, but not for a GUI > > application. > > > > There used to be a GUI library for SDL called "ParaGUI" but its home > > page is currently down. I'm not sure if it could fix all of SDL's > > limitations in regards to its usability as a GUI platform. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- Shlomi Fish > > > >> > >> On 07/19/2012 11:37 AM, Omer Zak wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 10:55 +0300, yochai wrote: > >>>> Hey, > >>>> > >>>> It isn't the first idea that comes to mind but what about SDL ? > >>> > >>> How about giving an URL to a Website or a Wikipedia article, which > >>> describes the specific SDL that you refer to? > >>> > >>> When searching both resources, Google returned irrelevant links > >>> and Wikipedia was rather ambiguous. > >>> > >>> Thanks, --- Omer > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Linux-il mailing list > >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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