Questions tagged [gui-toolkit]
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What GUI toolkit does Valve use for Steam?
What GUI toolkit does Valve use for Steam? Is it Qt? I am interested in using the same toolkit for a project.
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Which Java GUI framework to choose now?
Which GUI framework/library would you choose if you were to start your new project now or in the near future?
It has to be free for commercial use and cross platform.
I have been a happy swing user, but Sun seems like pushing swing to deprecation,…
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Still no wxPython for Python 3 (or 3.3) yet?
I wanted to start working with wxPython, but I found out that it isn't updated for Python 3. I'm using the newest verion of Python, 3.3 that is.
So I started looking on the web and found some people who said there wasn't, but these threads were like…
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What is the best library to use when writing GUI applications in C++?
Possible Duplicate:
Gui toolkits, which should I use?
I've got a fair bit of C/C++ experience - mostly for writing console application for Windows/Linux, and also a fair bit of C# experience - generally for writing WinForms applications etc.
I'm…
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Can someone please recommend an alternative to Java swing?
I have been mucking about with Java swing lately but it's butt ugly! Are most people who write Java GUI's using swing or something else? I would really appreciate a recommendation. I don't want to use a GUI builder because I need to learn how…
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Python GUI programming, Licensing and Understanding
I have been working on python recently and I have been making quite alot of research on the best x-platform UI toolkit. I dont really want something heavy because i am a lone developing switching from c# and there is possibility I will be selling…
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Will QT have a future as a GUI toolkit on MacOSX?
Today i tried to implement the owner drawn menu item support in Cocoa and MacOSX 10.5
And what i found was pretty scary when i think about QT which i intended to use for some other projects.
If i see it right there is no future for QT on MacOSX…
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Easiest cross platform widget toolkit?
What is the easiest cross platform widget toolkit? I'm looking for one that minimally covers Windows, OSX, and Linux with a C or C++ interface.
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How do the GUI toolkits communicate with the window managers on Linux?
What is the basic mechanism that make GUI toolkits (such as Qt, GTK) work together with the window managers?
As far as I understood, GUI toolkits can draw their own main window without requiring any window manager. However the point that confuses me…
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How Adobe made Photoshop cross-platform?
I want just know how Adobe makes Photoshop cross-platform? I know Photoshop is written completely in C++, but what about the GUI? Does Adobe use GUI toolkits?
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What GUI toolkit looks best for a native LAF for Python in Windows and Linux?
I need to decide on a GUI/Widget toolkit to use with Python for a new project. The target platforms will be Linux with KDE and Windows XP (and probably Vista). What Python GUI toolkit looks best and consistent with the native look and feel of the…
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What toolkit does JIRA use for the basic search filters?
JIRA has a nice search tool built into the issue tracker -- date-pickers, multi-select label pickers, number filters (min/max), and the like. For the label filter specifically, I'm wondering if this is a feature that Atlassian home-rolled; or did…
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Which GUI toolkit would you use for a touchscreen interface?
The only experience I have so far with a touchscreen interface was one where everything was custom drawn, and I get the feeling it's not the most efficient way of doing it (even the most basic layout change is hell to make). I know plenty of GUI…
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Pure GUI apps for Win/Linux/Mac in C++ with G++
GUI apps for Win/Linux/Mac in C/C++:
I want know how to write a "pure," "native," "API-level" apps for Windows, Linux, and Mac in C++.
I don't want "one-code run-anywhere", but native code for every OS.
Solution For Windows:
Just use Mingw/Win32…
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Is WPF yet another GUI toolkit like WinForms?
Is WPF yet another GUI toolkit like WinForms with some enhanced features? What other GUI toolkits are available for .Net? I am new to .Net and I believe that WinForms is a GUI Toolkit as per: http://www.mono-project.com/Gui_Toolkits
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