Zinc for Desktop
Sorry for the delay - the listserver is still sending my stuff 24 hours
late...
Tony wrote:
> For those interested in such things, a desktop
> version of the Zinc gui toolkit is available free
> from Wind River:
Urm... I thought I posted the same information some time ago. 
I have a few reservations about the Zinc stuff. WindRiver purchased the
toolkit, and apparently decided that the only part worth continuing to
develop commercially was the embedded portion. It's not clear what their
long term plans for the toolkit are. Will the free portion remain free,
become commercial, or simply disappear? There was a Mac port of the toolkit
which seems to have disappeared entirely.
Had they released the DOS (embedded) portion as free, that would be a
different matter. I'd probably be petitioning Robert on a daily basis to add
it to Euphoria/DOS32.
As it stands, I'm much more impressed by wxWindows. The library is under
active development, and is available for more platforms, including the Mac.
It's truly free, and ports for other platforms (such as DOS and the BeOS)
are underway.
Here's a blurb from the wxWindows site (http://www.wxwindows.org/):
"wxWindows gives you a single, easy-to-use API for writing GUI applications
on multiple platforms. Link with the appropriate library for your platform
(Windows/Unix/Mac) and compiler (almost any popular C++ compiler), and your
application will adopt the look and feel appropriate to that platform. On
top of great GUI functionality, wxWindows gives you: online help, network
programming, streams, clipboard and drag and drop, multithreading, image
loading and saving in a variety of popular formats, database support, HTML
viewing and printing, and much much more."
Even if Robert didn't want to use the GUI interface, there are a lot of
classes that would be nice to have built into Euphoria. For example Sockets,
HTTP, FTP, DDE (Windows), ODBC (Unix and Windows) and xBase.
I've looked at a lot of cross-platform GUI libraries, and wxWindows seems
the most complete of all of them - free or commercial.
-- David Cuny
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