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Re: Cross platform GUI
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Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:55:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> Well I'm kind of of pissed.
>
> ** begin rant **
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> Curious to find an acceptible substitute for Java, I was looking into cross
> platform GUI toolkits. GTK+ came to mind but alas no Mac support for the latest
> version. Then I thought of Qt. I visited the Qt website, read over their
> overview and got excited. Finally I found what I wanted so I clicked the
> download link and was whisk to the download page only to discover that the
> Windows version of the toolkit is not available under a open source licence but
> the X11 and Mac OS X versions are. They list no justification for this anywhere
> on their website. I suspect this this is open source snobbery at it's finest:
> "let's punish the Windows users by making them pay $1000+ to develop using our
> produst but give the Linux users a free ride"
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> ** end rant **
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> Luckly I just ordered a Mac mini so I'll be able to try my hand but I still
> won't be able to compile anything I create on Windows unless I'm willing to fork
> over some cash (which I am not).
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> FUT to o-t.geek
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> -Orion
Orion:
In my quest for 3D cross platform
independence, I decided to give GLUT a try.
GLUT is a cross-platform window toolkit that
Mark J. KilGard (who was at SGI at the time)
wrote to demonstrate OpenGL programming.
It is supposed to run on Unix/Linux, Windows,
and MacOS. I have successfully run it on Linux
and Windows; my lack of a Mac has precluded
being able to see whether it also runs on MacOS.
GLUT is reasonably well documented in his book
"OpenGL Programming for the X Window System".
There is a general lack of GUI widgets for GLUT
in Mark's book, but I did run across the GLUI
widget set for GLUT written by Paul Radeacher
in C++. Paul's C++ code is a bit crufty (my
opinion) but it actually works.
I don't track lugnet.off-topic.geek, so if you want
more information, please contact me off-list
(or keep it on lugnet.cad.dev which I do read).
My off-list E-mail list is:
Wayne -at- Gramlich DOT Net.
-Wayne
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