OpenEuphoria

Re: Irv's GTK Stuff

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at lanset.com> Nov 05, 2003
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C. K. Lester wrote:

> In that regard, can anybody suggest a simple x-plat graphics package
> that already works for Linux/FreeBSD and Windows (and whatever other
> flavor of OS you prefer/use)?

I've looked at a lot of cross-platform toolkits, and I'm convinced that 
wxWindows is probably the best one you're going to run across. A couple 
things that set it apart:

- It uses native controls, not emulated ones
- It runs on Windows, Linux and OS X
- It does a lot more than just widgets
- It works with every compiler out there
- It's actively being supported

For example, it handles printing, file systems, inter-process communications, 
databases, and so on. Borland is going to use it for one of their upcoming 
projects.

The downside of this is the wxWindows will probably make your application 
fairly hefty, even with the use of something like UPX to compress the 
executable size. A Windows executable will probably be a bit under 1 Meg, and 
a Linux staticly linked executable under 2 Megs.

-- David Cuny