[KLUG Programming] gui c++ programming

[Robert G. Brown]

Of the two, I would endorse Qt out of personal experience, but would like to
see what you think of Glade and other gtkxx-based libs I've only toyed with it
on one rather sinple app (which did not need to be portable to Windows). I
fel that getting these tools out the door is an important priority for these
folks, and I haven't kept up with what they're doing...

Another choice I would point of is WxWindows, which is free software (Qt is
not if you're going to non-Unix/Linux, AFAIK), but is portable. I have done
some of that, but not on a really low level; probably more comparable to MFC.

All of these replace MFC, at least for what I did. and probably in general.
I suggest you really know your VC as you go there, since there was a paucity
of examples that were really helpful, last time I looked.

								Regards,
								---> RGB <---

On 10 Nov 2003 16:57:05 -0500, Dirk H Bartley <bartleyd2@chartermi.net> wrote:

>Hello 
>
>A while ago I spent a bunch of time programming a graphical application
>I wrote for M$.  I started in C and then migrated to C++ using MFC.  I'm
>older and wiser now and want to do some graphical programming again and
>would prefer to use c++.  Looking around I have found a couple of
>possibilities, qt and gtkmm. 
>
>I looked through the beginning programming manuals for both this weekend
>and found them very similar but very different.  Both are c++ toolkits,
>gtkmm is really a wrapper for gtk+ so there can sometimes be a slight
>lag between a new feature in gtk and when it can be used in gtkmm.  qt
>is mature because of the developer base and user base of kde.  qt
>integrates well with the ide kdevelop.  I have yet to try an ide with
>gtkmm.  (I tried a full mdi autocreate in kde and it would not compile
>on my RH9 though) small qt projects compile simlply with qmake and
>make.  gtkmm I will need to learn automake and autoconf which I was not
>looking to do but may be a good thing to learn in the long run.  gtkmm
>has library projects to integrate with glade and that is my next thing
>to try.  gtkmm also has libraries to interface with gnome and bonobo but
>I am unsure at the advantages of this yet because I have not read up on
>gnome and bonobo features.  If I were to release a project using gtkmm,
>I would be expecting anyone that uses it to compile 6 different
>libraries.  Yuk and what a pain.  Is gtkmm distributed with ximmian? 
>It's not in RH9. 
>
>I'm just looking for comments.  Both are cross platform and will compile
>on win32.  Have not done yet though. 
>
>My big issues no matter which I choose are the available tools and
>documentation for c++ tools available today.  String libraries and
>docs.  Network libraries and docs.  ODBC libraries and docs.  Postgres
>libraries and docs.  If I create a multi platform project all used
>libraries will have to be available on both platforms.  Which is the
>mailing list I should get on besides the obvious qt or grkmm ones for
>c++.  Which website has the best info.  I'm just looking for comments.
>
>I'm looking to do some programming to interface with databases.  Most
>likely postgres.  Assume cross platform would have to be ODBC.
>
>
>Dirk 
>
>
>
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