[ale] (reasonably) mature GUI solutions in Linux

[John Wells]

Woops...perhaps I should have mentioned...he needs something that will run
on Windows as well :(, as most of his clients are Windows-centric.
 
That's why Python+wxWindows or Java is more appealing.  I'm betting on Java
at this point but need to look closer at wxPython.
 
Tcl/Tk in my opinion is an undesirable solution and a pain in the ass to
maintain.  Tkinter is a little better but still suffers from the pain and
agony of it's underlying Tk.... ;-)
 
John
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Brown [mailto:matthew.brown at cordata.com]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:39 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] (reasonably) mature GUI solutions in Linux


Glade!  Eric Anderson threw together a quick little program using Glade,
then put it up on SourceForge.  IMHO, it's a GREAT tutorial for how to
create a basic app UI for X.

Basically, there's a library that allows your Perl program to use the direct
output of Glade, without worrying about re-compiling it, so you get a
presentation layer that's less depoendent upon your bus. logic... a good
thing.

For details, take a look at Bill Manager on sf.net.  The author is Eric
Anderson.  Eric, you here?  did I represent correctly?


On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 00:06, John Wells wrote: 

My uncle has programmed with Clipper and VB for quite some time now and is

really interesting in shifting gears and moving some of his clients to an

open solution.



Are there any tools out there for the average programmer that make it

fairly easy (intuitive?!) to create a GUI?  My first thought was Java, but

I'm not sure ...



Thanks!

John

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