[GRASS-dev] v.digit: Qt or wxWidgets

[Michael Barton]

My understanding is that, as of last summer, there are open source versions
of QT for all platforms.

Same for TclTk and wxWidgets

Michael
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> From: John Gillette <JGillette at rfmd.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:17:52 -0400
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, Glynn Clements
> <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Conversation: [GRASS-dev] v.digit: Qt or wxWidgets
> Subject: RE: [GRASS-dev] v.digit: Qt or wxWidgets
> 
>  
> 
>> From: Michael Barton
>> 
>> I can offer a couple of answers, though Glynn and others can
>> fill in richer details.
>> 
>> (2) wxWidgets is an interface building platform, like TclTk,
>> QT, and GTK. It can be used with C.
>> 
>> (3) I think that this is answered in (2)
>> 
>> (4) wxWidgets, like QT and TclTk has versions that run
>> natively across platforms--inlcuding most *nix flavors, Mac
>> OS X, and Windows. GTK runs primarily in X11 (though there
>> are experimental versions under development for other
>> platforms I understand).
>> 
>> Michael
> 
> This probably answers most of my questions.  Obviously wxWidgets
> is a C++ program which would call the C grass libraries.  I was
> confused by the relationship of GTK+ and wxWidgets on Linux.
> wxWidgets "sits on top of GTK+" to use GTK+ as the native GUI
> on Linux (only).  So based on Michael's answer above, wxWidgets
> would make it easier to port GUI programs to other systems while
> doing away with the X11 requirement. This also avoids licensing
> issues with Qt.
> 
> So ...  wxWidgets?
> 
> John