Design question for a cross platform GUI (FLTK)
Hi,
I have been playing around with a cross platform GUI called
Fast Light Tool Kit ("FLTK") at http://www.fltk.org/.
I have a few simple things working (in Windows) and it looks
great! It is not as extensive as Win32Lib but is much smaller
(and so far simpler). One drawback is that it uses it's own widget
set (like gtk). It also doesn't have the rich set of widgets
available like wxWindows. I guess this is the trade off for being
small and simple!
I have to make a decision as to how I will expose the classes
and methods of FLTK. It has a rather different design than that
of Windows (i.e. Win32Lib) and I have the option of trying to
manipulate my FLTK wrapper to look a bit like Windows (ie
Win32Lib) or do a straight wrapper to FLTK as FLTK works.
For example ... Radio buttons. In FLTK a radio button is just a
"Round" command button with the RADIO attribute set.
I could force my wrapper for the "Round" command button to set the
RADIO attribute to make it look like windows ... or I could leave
it as FLTK does and let the programmer decide how they want to use it.
At this stage I'm leaning towards the "leave it as FLTK" does it method
as it is the most flexible and powerful. The down side is that this
method is also the most "foreign" to current Windows and Win32Lib
programmers.
Just as a side note I have wrapped an "ASK" dialog box class that asks
a yes/no question with some text ... I have this bug where "YES" is the
only button that is displayed ... and it sort of reminded me of one of
the questions in the Euphoria survey!!!! (Which I will have to tabulate
one day!)
I feel pretty bad about not completing that (IF anyone wants a really
boring
job I'm willing to send them all the results to be tabulated!!! Any
takers???
anyway ... back to my question ... does anyone have any comments either
way on
the "best" way to wrap FLTK?
Anyone have any other questions about FLTK?
Ray Smith
http;//www.geocities.com/ray_223
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