[Texmacs-dev] Re: FLTK instead of GTK

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> Far better cross-platform support than GTK.  -M.

Thanks for the pointer; this looks interesting indeed.
In fact, since I will not do the porting myself,
the choice depends on the person who is willing to do the job :^)
So I forwarded your message to the other developers.

Thanks again, Joris

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> 
> FLTK Home
> http://www.fltk.org/
> 
> Screenshots
> http://flvw.sourceforge.net/table.html
> http://www.oksid.ch/flwriter/index.html
> http://www.geocities.com/letapk/treecle.html
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6434/calcalcfltk.gif
> http://www.oksid.ch/flfm/screen.html  (with drag-n-drop)
> http://www.osc.edu/~jbryan/VolSuite/images/screenshot.png
> http://www.geocities.com/letapk/fltdj-full.jpg
> http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~demiche/images/index.html
> http://www.inxservices.com/inX_Services_EDICourier.html
> http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/shots.html
> http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mbasecalc/mbasecalc.html#screenshot
> http://www.daansystems.com/mailreactor/images/screenshot.gif
> http://www.3dsite.com/people/erco/unixtools/nixieclock/
> 
> Philosophy
> http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.1/intro.html#2_1
> It has always been Bill's belief that the GUI API of all modern
> systems is much too high level. Toolkits (even FLTK) are not what
> should be provided and documented as part of an operating system. The
> system only has to provide arbitrary shaped but featureless windows, a
> powerful set of graphics drawing calls, and a simple unalterable
> method of delivering events to the owners of the windows. NeXT (if you
> ignored NextStep) provided this, but they chose to hide it and tried
> to push their own baroque toolkit instead.
> 
> Widget callback modification example
> http://cscdev.lvc.edu/fl_connect/fl_connect.pdf
> FL Connect is an extension to the FLTK [old version 1.1] gui library,
> providing more modern callback support.
> 
> FLTK Mac OS X support:
> http://www.matthiasm.com/flMac.html
>