Almighty Wise and Perspicacious UUG Members, For most of the things I've wanted to program, command-line interfaces have been sufficient. If I ever needed some sort of GUI, a web-based PHP interface worked peachily. However, I've now run into a case where I think I need to learn how to program some sort of GUI... Reader's Digest version: I want to create interactive card games that you can play with others over the network (think Microsoft Hearts). PHP just won't cut it in this situation, as much as that grieves me. *sigh*
So, I turned to the programming language I know second-best--Java. After playing frustratedly with the source code for Swing demo applets for hours on end with no results, I gave up. Now I turn to you: what do you people use to program GUIs? Java Swing? Gtk? Qt? Perl-Tcl/Tk? What would be the easiest to learn? Are GUIs really as painful to program (especially without a fancy IDE) as I've heard? Are there resources to help clueless newbies like myself? Or do I just have to wait until CS Whatever, GUI programming? Thanks a ton in advance, ~ ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
