On Dec 10 at 09:00PM, Ross Werner wrote: > 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?
I don't know anything about writing web-based applications, but I have written a few GUIs in my day and I don't think they're that bad. QT was pretty great. You can write a basic program in just a few minutes. You can use designer to make your interface and then link each button to a function that you can write later. Until you inherit it, it's a noop. You have to like C++, though. The help and examples from trolltech are also sweet. I've never really done Gtk, but I imagine that it's similar in difficulty. I did Tcl/Tk and I didn't like it. I didn't like writing the callback functions to make it work with my C executable. I also tried python and its various libraries and they didn't seem to bad, especially for a quick app without many widgets. Grant ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
