On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 21:00, Ross Werner wrote: > Almighty Wise and Perspicacious UUG Members,
Ooh ooh, I know he's talking about me! (J/K) > > 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? NetBeans <http://www.netbeans.org/> has a pretty nice GUI builder for Java. It's mostly drag and drop kinda stuff. Generates the nasty swing code for you. Events and properties can all be configured right there without touching code. (GUI code is yucky). Qt Designer <http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/designer.html> is a truly excellent GUI builder for Qt/C++. Really a pleasure to work with. You can build some basic stuff entirely in Designer. The signals and slots thing lets you connect the components events together by dragging from on to the other and picking the signal and the slot. It lets you see what you've designed immediately rather than compiling first. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
