Re: GUI systems

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

> > Maybe Java would be an alternative?
> >Some tools have appeared for Linux too that let you develop using
> >clickclickclick-GUI:s, but I don't remember the names right now.
> >Borland/Inprise had something new recently.

This thread is getting confusing.  I'm still not sure if the original
supplicant was asking how to develop a program that *has* a GUI (ie
looking for a GUI library or a 'GUI-builder' toolkit), or
how to develop programs *using* a GUI-based C/C++ programming environment
(An "IDE").

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN IDE:
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  SGI recently opensourced a C/C++ development environment for
Linux that uses JAVA (and I believe, a web browser).

You should be able to track it down a www.sgi.com

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GUI LIBRARY/GUI BUILDER.
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  There must be a hundred of these - and unless you have very
special requirements (as I did when I wrote 'PUI'), almost any
of them will do.

  I prefer 'FLTK' for regular X-window development - and (of course)
PUI where the GUI has to run on top of OpenGL for applications like
full-screen games.  GLUI is another alternative for that.  But ask
three people and you'll get twelve choices.

> Plus, I've not downloaded anything that compiled in a long time. PLIB didn't
> compile. Search for Herring didn't compile.

Most people have no problem with those - I'm their maintainer and I'd like to
hear what your problem was....typically it's something *really* simple.

If you don't tell maintainers when things break, they won't get better.  In the
two or so years I've been maintaining those two packages, I have only ONCE given
up on someone who couldn't install them - and he was using an Alpha CPU and couldn't
run GDB to save his life!

PLEASE talk to me offline and I'll help you figure this out.

> None of the other games I downloaded
> compiled. I'm kind of losing faith in that approach.

Sounds a lot like there is something seriously amiss with your machine setup.
Most things I build these days install straight off.

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