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Re: Lin32Lib?

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Apr 21, 2001
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, jbrown105 at HotPOP.com wrote:

> Anybody know of a clone of Win32Lib for Linux? I'm trying to write one that 
> uses GraphApp, but the code is so premature that it isn't even worth showing. 
> The other alternative I know of is Llama/GTK, but it's too broken to be of 
> much use. If you know of any alternatives, please don't hesitate to post a 
> reply. (Please do hesitate to email a reply  Just Kidding).
> TIA,
> jbrown

Unfortunately, there isn't one. 

Programming directly to xWindow using Xlib is out of the question:
two or three pages of code just to get a window open.

GraphApp, as you've seen, is limited by the underlying Athena or Motif widget
set, both of which are pretty primitive.

Most of the good packages, like QT, are written in C++, which makes interfacing
with them very difficult.  

That leaves GTK, which is written in C, and is fairly high level with a
reasonable set of widgets. Unfortunately, no one has wrapped it for 
Euphoria. Dave Cuny made a try, but if he was unsuccessful, there's 
no point in me even trying. ;)

I think the only choices are to learn C++, or come up with a thousand bucks 
to buy Kylix. :(

Regards,
Irv