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Re: [SLUG] GEtting started with GUI prgramming in linux.
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Jason Stokes wrote:
> John Ryland wrote:
> > There are quite a few toolkits out there, but Gtk and Qt are the two main
> > ones. Personally I think C++ and OO techniques are very useful for GUI
> > programming. Gtk is sort of OO but it's written in C. If you do want to use
> > Gtk with C++ then have a look at Inti which is coming along. It doesn't have
> > the maturity that Qt has, but it is LGPL (Qt/X11 and Qt/Embedded are GPL).
>
> Dual-licensed, actually. Basically, the licensing sticking point with
> QT is that if you want to write a close-source application that links to
> QT, you have to buy a license from Troll-tech. I find this deeply
> undesirable, but you can't blame Troll Tech for trying to make money.
I notice the New Riders have some excellent books on programming with
Gtk. Having decent documentation is another point to consider when
selecting a library or API to work with. I don't think I've seen
a suitable equivalent for Qt.
rachel
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