[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] FLTK

[From: Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente]

2005/6/23, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com>:
> I wonder why one would want to bolt a toolkit on top of another one?
> Does FLTK have some overly fantastic widgets that Gtk is missing?

I think that main advantage of FLTK is the 'L? in its name: Light. The
fltklib could be 1 to 2 MB I think, so it has been used in some
embedded projects before as GUI tool kit, like Pixil [1]

As you can see in the fltk shots[2] there is a GUI designer, called
Fluid, and a lot of widgets. It is designed for C++ programming.

Do we really need another GUI environment in such device? That's the
question. My first answer would be we don't need it, but I think that
programmers could compile it easily for arm (it is already available)
and use it and distribute it with their apps. That's freedom.

Best regards,

[1] http://www.pixil.org/screenshots.php
[2] http://www.fltk.org/shots.php

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