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| DATE | 2005-01-06 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] What is available for creating GUI's?
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Steve Milo wrote:
> We need to create an 'application' for ms machines, I would like do the
> development work on a GNU/Linux box.
You've got some options here.
glade/gtk if you want C/C++. these libs are ported to Windows.
You can do the whole thing on Mono, and it'll work on Windows .NET
without a recompile. There's always Java, which may be right
for you. Personally, I don't like it.
There's Tcl/Tk (my personal favorite), Perl/Tk, and Python/Tk,
which all have very good Windows and Mac support.
Tcl is my favorite because it's the fastest way to write a GUI
that I've ever seen, and it's a very easy language to autogenerate
scripts for. A common idiom in Tcl/Tk is dynamically interpolating
out a little handler script and binding it to a GUI event. It's got a
very _regular_ syntax (like LISP), and everything's a string. Lists
are strings separated by spaces, and any list can be evaluated
as a script by interpreting the first element as a command name.
There are only about 10 rules to Tcl syntax, and that's it.
Here's a Tcl GUI app:
#!/usr/bin/wish
button .b -text {hello, world!} -command exit
pack .b
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